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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 104281

Machine Gunners of the 1st Battalion, 25th Marines


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 Historical Center.

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Image posted 17 January 2007