A veteran design at rest
The BAR is lowered and its gunner has stopped for a moment. Rather than showing automatic fire, this figure lets the weight and familiarity of the weapon become the subject. He represents the American infantryman carrying his squad's mobile fire support through the winter fighting.
The Browning Automatic Rifle was already an older design by 1944: it had entered service near the end of the First World War. It would continue well beyond the Second. That long service life makes the weapon a useful thread between generations of American soldiers, even in this very specific winter setting.
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