Archive Photo of The Month – Small Arms Review https://smallarmsreview.com Explore the World of Small Arms Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:13:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://smallarmsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-online-sar-logo-red-32x32.png Archive Photo of The Month – Small Arms Review https://smallarmsreview.com 32 32 Archive Photo of the Month: August 1998 https://smallarmsreview.com/archive-photo-of-the-month-august-1998/ Sat, 01 Aug 1998 23:02:40 +0000 https://dev.smallarmsreview.com/?p=669 By Robert Bruce

From the Robert Bruce Collection

20 April 1945 ETO. Italian paratroops in US C47 prepare for a drop behind German lines. Note Beretta Model 38A SMG’s. Credit: US Army Signal Corps / US Army Center of Military History. (ROBERT BRUCE PHOTOGRAPHY).

Editor’s Note: Robert regrets that he cannot handle individual requests for photographs. However, publishers, documentary film makers, etc. are encouraged to contact him for information on use of archive images in his extensive collection. Send a stamped self-addressed envelope and details on intended use to ROBERT BRUCE PHOTOGRAPHY, PO Box 482 SAR, Sandston, VA 23150 USA

This article first appeared in Small Arms Review V1N11 (August 1998)
]]> Archive Photo of the Month: July 1998 https://smallarmsreview.com/archive-photo-of-the-month-july-1998/ Wed, 01 Jul 1998 22:47:13 +0000 https://dev.smallarmsreview.com/?p=632 By Robert Bruce

From the Robert Bruce Collection

Firing Practice: British Army Officers instructing members of the U.S. Army’s 306th Machine Gun Battalion, 77th division, in use of the Vickers Machine Gun. Due to severe shortages of US machineguns and US caliber .30-06 ammunition, the American Expeditionary Force was almost exclusively armed with British and French weapons. Credit:US Army Signal Corps (USA) and Robert Bruce. Copyright 1997 (ROBERT BRUCE PHOTOGRAPHY).

Firing Practice: British Army Officers instructing members of the U.S. Army’s 306th Machine Gun Battalion, 77th division, in use of the Vickers Machine Gun. Due to severe shortages of US machineguns and US caliber .30-06 ammunition, the American Expeditionary Force was almost exclusively armed with British and French weapons. Credit:US Army Signal Corps (USA) and Robert Bruce. Copyright 1997 (ROBERT BRUCE PHOTOGRAPHY).

Editor’s Note: Robert regrets that he cannot handle individual requests for photographs. However, publishers, documentary film makers, etc. are encouraged to contact him for information on use of archive images in his extensive collection. Send a stamped self-addressed envelope and details on intended use to ROBERT BRUCE PHOTOGRAPHY, PO Box 482 SAR, Sandston, VA 23150 USA

This article first appeared in Small Arms Review V1N10 (July 1998)
]]> Archive Photo of The Month: February 1998 https://smallarmsreview.com/archive-photo-of-the-month-february-1998/ Sun, 01 Feb 1998 23:34:00 +0000 https://dev.smallarmsreview.com/?p=411 By Robert Bruce

Gatling Style Designs: Past & Present

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD Summer 1954: Demonstration of 20mm Gatling includes a comparison of a vintage rifle caliber Gatling from the Ordnance Museum Credit: US Army Ordnance Corps / National Archives / Robert Bruce Photo

From the Robert Bruce Collectiion
Credit: Robert Bruce. Copyright 1998 (ROBERT BRUCE PHOTOGRAPHY).

The Ultimate Gatling is a GE GAU-8 30mm with feed chutes and drum magazine as installed in the awesome A-10 WARTHOG. The Volkswagon posed next to it is a nice touch to show the relative size of this Godzilla of Gatling Guns. Courtesy of Fairchild Republic Company and Robert Bruce Photo.

Editor’s Note: Robert regrets that he cannot handle individual requests for photographs. However, publishers, documentary film makers, etc. are encouraged to contact him for information on use of archive images in his extensive collection. Send a stamped self-addressed envelope and details on intended use to ROBERT BRUCE PHOTOGRAPHY, PO Box 482 SAR, Sandston, VA 23150 USA.

This article first appeared in Small Arms Review V1N5 (February 1998)
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