B.A.R. Caliber .30 .A2 Rear Sight
c. 1943
Artist
John A. Falasco
Printer
Reproduction Shop, Camp Wheeler, GA
DIMENSIONS
36 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (92.7 x 153.7 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.5775
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Georgia, Military, Rifle, Technology, United States, Weapons
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Georgia, Military, Rifle, Technology, United States, Weapons

The designer of this poster, Technical Sergeant John Falasco, was stationed at Camp Wheeler during World War II. He had been a graphic designer before the war. In this, one of several training posters he designed while there, he provided a detailed technical image of the Browning Automatic Rifle (B. A. R.). While this rifle had been used during World War I by the United States and other countries as a weapon designed to be carried by infantrymen, during World War II, the U.S. Army began to use it as a light machine gun, firing it from a bipod like the one seen here on the far left.

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