It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller, Corpus Christi, Texas. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy 5-1/2 years. At the Naval Air Base he sees that the flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an
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- Date
- 1942-08
- Photographer / author
- Hollem, Howard R., photographer
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 9,154 × 7,224 pixels
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