"Bolts, magazine foreplate, and trigger guard from a German infantry rifle and anti-tank rifle from 1918, approximately caliber .53. Shown is also the upper bend from the anti-tank rifle. Photograph taken on August 12, 1918, by Pvt. McLaughlin. This image was held, not for publication and issued by the Automatic Arms Section, Engineering Division, Ordnance Department in Tours, France."

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