Browning Automatic Rifle ~ AmmoLand News Image Vault

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Welcome back to the AmmoLand News image vault. Here is where we dig deep into some of our collection of historic firearms photos for our readers to enjoy. In this series, we pull out an assortment of images featuring the iconic Browning Automatic Rifle.

Anne Louisa Ide Cockran The New-York Tribune, March 31, 1918 : Photograph shows Anne Louisa Ide Cockran, wife of William Bourke Cockran holding a M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle outside of an event to raise money for the war effort during World War I.

Anne Louisa Ide Cockran The New-York Tribune, March 31, 1918 M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle LC-B2- 4533-15 [P&P] — Anne Louisa Ide Cockran The New-York Tribune, March 31, 1918 M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

Soldier Holding A M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle: Photograph shows a soldier holding a M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle outside the New York Public Library during a Browning machine gun exhibit sponsored by the Mayor’s Committee of Women on National Defense during World War I. A group of society women look on. From the same New-York Tribune, March 31, 1918, series as the image shown above.

Soldier Holding A M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle LC-DIG-ggbain-26468 — Soldier Holding A M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

Leatherneck Trains With The Browning Automatic Rifle: 1942 May. New River, North Carolina. Marine infantry. In the hands of a hard, capable leatherneck, the Browning automatic rifle is a versatile and effective fighting tool. This Marine, in training at New River, North Carolina, knows how to get the best out of it. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina.

Leatherneck Trains With The Browning Automatic Rifle: LC-USE6-D-005773 — Leatherneck Trains With The Browning Automatic Rifle

Marine Infantry Man With The Browning Automatic Rifle: 1942 May. In the hands of a hard, capable leatherneck, the Browning automatic rifle is a versatile and effective fighting tool. This Marine, in training at New River, North Carolina, knows how to get the best out of it. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina.

Marine Infantry Man With The Browning Automatic Rifle LC-USE6- D-005772 [P&P] LOT 1970 — Marine Infantry Man With The Browning Automatic Rifle

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Deplorable Bill

4 years ago

Good full auto rifle. Had two speeds. You didn’t want to be on the wrong side of one. They were heavy and magazine, not belt, fed. I still remember part of something we marched by; “Don’t give me a b a r honey. Don’t give me a b a r babe….

Arm up and carry on

Grim

Reply to Deplorable Bill

BAR’s are damn heavy.

Buck

More please!

RoyD

Reminds me of my Basic Training graduation book. It has many pictures in it that were taken at various points during 3-1-1 Company Basic Training at Fort Ord in the summer of 1973. All most all the pictures were staged and I appear in four or five of them. Good times.

Tionico

want more

want one of these, too but I doubt huo have any real ones to pass out.

Dry gulched

I remember reading a story of the BAR on Iwo Jima. A Japanese soldier took cover behind a large piece of coral and couldn’t be dislodged. They called up the BAR man and he commenced chipping away at the coral until the Japanese wasn’t behind cover anymore. Awesome firepower.