Artillery in Canada: Royal Canadian Navy .50 cal Vickers and Browning anti-aircraft guns
. 50 cal anti-aircraft guns
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4950802)
Quad Vickers .50 cal Machine Guns, shipboard.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3572202)
RCN rating being trained in the operation of a .50-calibre anti-aircraft gun, HMCS Cornwallis, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 21 October 1942.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4950885)
Twin Vickers .50 cal Machine Guns mounted on an RCN Minesweeper, ca 1945.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3571062)
RCN rating manning a .50-calibre machine gun aboard HMCS St Croix at sea, March 1941.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3356796)
Twin .50 cal MGs, shipboard.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3356793)
Twin .50 cal MG on board a ship, 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3356794)
Twin .50 cal MG on board a ship, 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3356797)
Twin .50 cal MG on board a ship, 1944.
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Twin .50-calibre AA Heavy Machine Guns, in the Army Museum, the Citadel, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584934)
.50-cal twin-mount AA Gun, 6 May 1954.