Posted: 7/9/2006 12:14:27 PM EDT
Outstanding photo. Many of those guys are gone now , or fading quickly.  "......the Marines were employing the BAR just as John Moses Browing had conceived it, as an automatic rifle. By the latter part of the Pacific theater, the BAR had returned to its roots. Gone were the doodads created by Springfield Armory to turn the automatic rifle into a crew served squad automatic weapon. Gone were the bipods, carrying handles and flash hiders." from Rock in a Hard Place by Lt. James Ballou (ret.) In photo: PFC James Reynolds with Browing Automatic Rifle. Photo , Robert Bruce Collection. |