What are these soldiers doing?

Posted June 28, 2010 in Ammunition by Steve Johnson with 22 Comments
Tags: Ammunition, history, Korea, military

This photo is form a set of Life Magazine never seen before Korean War photos. Does anyone know what they are doing? It looks like they are loading a case, but that can’t be right … can it?

“Bullets and gunpowder”, November, 1952.

Larger version and other Korean War photos at Life Magazine.

[ Many thanks to Mik for emailing me the pic. ]

Steve Johnson

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