| Caption | Â Â Â | US Marine Corps machine gun crew operating a Browning M1919A4 machine gun, Marshall Islands, circa early Feb 1944 ww2dbase | ||||||||||
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| Photos on Same Day | Â | 1 Feb 1944 | ||||||||||
| Photos at Same Place | Â | Marshall Islands | ||||||||||
| Added By | Â | C. Peter Chen | ||||||||||
| Added Date | Â | 7 Dec 2007 | ||||||||||
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"I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil."General Douglas MacArthur at Leyte, 17 Oct 1944
16 Sep 2011 06:32:55 PM
Looks like these Mudd Marines setup and ready
both have personal M-1,.30 Caliber Carbine
Rifles. The M-1 Carbine was a gas operated,
semi-automatic, magazine fed shoulder weapon that used both 15 and 30 round box magazines.
The later M2 was a select-fire weapon, that is semi and full automatic. During the Vietnam War, the M1 and M2 were still in use