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NH 104281 Machine Gunners of the 1st Battalion, 25th Marines

Photo #: NH 104281 Machine Gunners of the 1st Battalion, 25th Marines
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Title: Machine Gunners of the 1st Battalion, 25th Marines
Description: Pose with their .30 caliber Browning water-cooled machine gun, probably on Iwo Jima during February-March 1945. Photographed by Kauffman. Note the nickname Widow-Maker painted on the gun's water jacket, and waht appears to be a flash-supressor on its muzzle. The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 104281
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