Anti-Aircraft machine guns on a PT-Boat, 1941

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - NITRATE NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1941-10-22
nitrate negative
overall: 5 x 4 in.

5x4 in. nitrate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on October 22, 1941. Image commissioned by Elco Naval Division of the Electric Boat Company shows a gunman aiming up with a dual 50 caliber machine gun, looking aft off an unidentified motor torpedo boat. The single gun in the background is 20mm. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "102990F / [Box] 4712" and typed: "10/22/41 / Elco Works / Armament aboard PT boat". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, image acquired in honor of Hudson H. Bubar.

UNIDENTIFIED motor torpedo boat, PT Elco
1984.187.102990F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, image acquired in honor of Hudson H. Bubar