KACBBA118 – Taking a Break

This ‘winter’ soldier is standing at-ease with hisM1918 Browning Automatic Rifleby his side.
The B.A.R. was one of a family of American automatic rifles that entered service late in 1918 and continued throughout WW2, the Korean conflict and even as late as the Vietnam War!
Utilizing a 20-round box magazine the B.A.R. fired the standard 30-06 round(the same as the WW1’03 Springfield Rifle’).Eventually in 1957 it began to be replaced by the machine gun as the standardS.A.W.Squad Automatic Weapon.