PBY gunner NASCoChr1942
Jesse Rhodes Waller, AOM3c, tries out a 30-calibre machine gun he has just installed in a U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas (USA), in August 1942.
- Date
- 1942-08
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- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 925 × 716 pixels
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