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English: ARMORERS place a .50-caliber aircraft Browning machine gun M2A1 in the nose of a North American B–25 at the airfield on Betio Island (Hawkins Field (Tarawa)) as interested natives look on. This gun was considered one of the most reliable weapons of the war.
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Source USAAF photo via The U.S. Army in World War II: Pictorial Record, page 209. U.S. Army in World War II CMH Pub 12-1, Cloth; CMH Pub 12-1-1, Paper 1952, 2006; 471 pages, illustrations, appendixes, index
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