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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 105180

U.S. Naval Reserve Aviation Base, New York, N.Y.

(Floyd Bennett Field)

Scene in the base Armory, circa 1940-1942.
A Sailor is working on a Browning .30 caliber machine gun at the bench in the foreground.
Note the two-tiered rack at right, holding 40 M1903 ("Springfield") rifles, and the unit in the left center distance, with many of its pigeon-holes containing web cartridge belts for rifle ammunition.

Collection of Captain Hays R. Browning, USNR, from the Naval Reserve Aviation Base New York, N.Y. album.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 3 November 2007