Women's machine gun squad
Oct 15 1918 #OTD Near Heule, Belgium, war photographer John Warwick Brooke takes this photo, IWM Q 7122, of Belgian civilian women examining a German Maxim machine gun post which was outside their cottage during the Battle of Courtrai.
Women’s machine gun squad police reserves, New York City. Practicing with Lewis Machine Gun which is to be sent to the front. The killing range of this gun is 2 miles and it fires 500 shots per minute. Captain Elise Reniger, manning the gun, Miss Helen M. Striffler on the rear seat, and Mrs. Ivan Farasoff driving.
National Archives Identifier:31474833
Local Identifier:165-WW-143B-23
Women’s machine gun squad police reserves, New York City. Practicing with Lewis Machine Gun which is to be sent to the front. The killing range of this gun is 2 miles and it fires 500 shots per minute. The group includes Mrs. Heydecker, Amelia Velleman, Helen M. Striffler, Leone Cuthbertson, Hazel M. Rogers, Rose B. Breler.
National Archives Identifier:31474831
Local Identifier:165-WW-143B-22
Teaching women to shoot at the Wakefield, Massachusetts rifle range. The women are learning the art under the direction of a sergeant of Marines
National Archives Identifier:31474799
Local Identifier:165-WW-143B-6
Wives and mothers of men at the front being instructed in shooting at the Wakefield rifle range, Wakefield, Massachusetts., by Major Portal and U.S. Marines. 1918
National Archives Identifier:31474789
Local Identifier:165-WW-143B-1
Captain Beihl U.S.A. instructs women physical culture teacher in military training at Lane High School, Chicago, Illinois
National Archives Identifier:31474811
Local Identifier:165-WW-143B-12
Mrs. Richard W. Sears at Wakefield rifle range, Wakefield, Massachusetts. 1918
National Archives Identifier:31474801
Local Identifier:165-WW-143B-7
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