From the Robert Bruce Collection – Small Arms Review https://smallarmsreview.com Explore the World of Small Arms Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:43:22 +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 From the Robert Bruce Collection – Small Arms Review https://smallarmsreview.com 32 32 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).

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This article first appeared in Small Arms Review V1N10 (July 1998)
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