U.S. Army Browning Automatic Rifle Parts Display, Honolulu, 1940
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Photograph of an exhibition board displaying a fully disassembled Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), part of a 1940 U.S. Army weapons display in Honolulu, Hawaii. The assembled rifle and sling are shown at top, with its barrel, stock, bipod, and smaller internal components laid out and labeled below on a wood-plank backdrop. 1940.
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This photograph is from the personal collection of photographs taken by CPL William Stinson Brown while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before the infamous attack of 7 December 1941. CPL Brown was there during the attack. These unique photographs were donated to the COGG Honor Archive for public use of students, writers and researchers of history. The generous donation was from CPL William S Brown’s, son, William Stinson “Bill” Brown Jr. and his loving granddaughter Caitlin Brown Clancy.