WAVES-- Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, female members of the Navy in World War Two-- practising pistol shooting at a target range.
United States, 1943.
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| Thomas D. McAvoy, LIFE © Time Inc. |
A serviceman instructs a WAVE in using her weapon.
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A WAVE loads her pistol while a sergeant guides.
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A WAVE checks target hits with a soldier.
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An officer makes notes on it.
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Some reading during down time.
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Then she blows smoke off the barrel and flips in into her holster.
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3 comments:
Well, no...the US military started using smokeless cartridges as soon as the technology was available (stolen from the French) in the late 1890's, so blowing the smoke from the barrel was an unnecessary gesture.
And she's not wearing a holster .
Hey! My parenthesized grin was deleted!
Haha, well, maybe she's seen too many movies-- or I have. :P
And sorry, no idea where your grin went! Silly comment system.
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