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American troops inside a M3 Half-track vehicle during training, Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942 [Colorized by WW2DB]

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Caption     American troops inside a M3 Half-track vehicle during training, Fort Knox, Kentucky, United States, Jun 1942 [Colorized by WW2DB] ww2dbase
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Army
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M3 Half-Track   Main article  Photos  
M1 Garand   Main article  Photos  
Browning M1917   Main article  Photos  
Photo Size 499 x 385 pixels
Added By C. Peter Chen
Colorized Date 24 Feb 2023
Licensing  Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government".

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1. Commenter identity confirmed Bill says:
30 Oct 2011 05:59:49 PM

GIs are armed with the M1 Semi-auto rifle in
30.06 caliber, but the M1917 Steel helmet
has to go, it would later be replaced with the new M1 helmet.
As you can see the M1917 helmet didn't give much protection to the side or back of the head. Machine gun on right looks like it could be a Browning M1917A1 Water-cooled
.30 Caliber weapon.
2. Commenter identity confirmed Bill says:
5 Nov 2011 06:46:04 PM

The Browning M1917A1 in lower right of above photo, was a .30 caliber, water-cooled crew served weapon. That cylinder object is the water jacket around the barrel this would dissipate heat generated by firing the M1917 it fired the .30-06 round, same as the Garand M1 rifle, and had a rate-of-fire was between 450 to 600rpm.

The M1917 served throughout WWII and was slowly phased out of front-line service,some could still be found at Battlaion-level until the late 1950s others were used for training, Production ran from 1917 to 1945
Replaced by the M60 General Purpose Machine Gun in 7.62mm.

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