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Firearms >> Other Firearms >> Assembling 1903 Springfields during WW1 http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1524113593 Message started by butlersrangers on Apr 19^th, 2018 at 4:53am

Title: Assembling 1903 Springfields during WW1
Post by butlersrangers on Apr 19^th, 2018 at 4:53am

This neat photo was apparently published by the N.Y. Times, during WW1.

I suspect the first elderly workman might be Joseph Sumner Adams. He came out of retirement and was working at the Armory during the war.

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