Photo # NH 106856
USS Charger (AVG-30)
One of the ship's 3"/50 gun crews standing by, June 1942.
Note that one of these Sailors is wearing a World War I era steel helmet.
Several "arrows" drawn on the original image mark the gun breech operator (2nd from right), the loader (left center), the "hot shell" man (right, with asbestos gloves), and three ammunition handlers (left and center foreground).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
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