A-2 Higgins torpedo boat

 

Soviet sailors of the Northern Navy unload torpedo from a torpedo boat of the American type A-2 Higgins, which was supplied to the USSR under the Lend-Lease program.
The Soviet sailors photo is interesting by the presence in the frame of a sailor sitting on a torpedo tube and wearing a pea jacket with the inscription “U.S. Navy.

On the left of Soviet sailors is a 12.7-mm twin machine gun “Colt-Browning”, in the center – a 530-mm torpedo.


Soviet sailors source: City Museum of Local History, Polyarny.

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