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17 Oct 2021 Garand Picture of the Day
A Washington National Guardsmen stands by his Coast Artillery position near Hawthron, CA (circa 1942).
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The gun in the background looks like a wooded dummy gun.
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Originally Posted by
fjruple
The gun in the background looks like a wooded dummy gun.
That was my thought.
Bob
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How would you like your duty assignment to consist of guarding a fake gun? 
Bob
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Doubt if that's even remotely a dummy gun. Looks like pole waiting to be set up, possibly part of the netting support.
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Guys-- It did a little research and it appears that in the early part of WWII, Hawthorne, CA was the headquarters for several Barrage Balloon Battalions. I would imagine at that early part of the war, "real" AAA guns were in very short supply. I remember seeing a manual on the construction of "dummy" guns, some with "flash bangs" spaced down the "barrel" that were electrically fired to give the effect of being fired. Probably a take off the "Quaker" guns of the Civil War era.
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