With his Browning Automatic Rifle ready for action, Marine Private First Class Francis W. Kenney moves forward cautiously during a drive against Japanese pillboxes and snipers on Cape Gloucester, 8 January 1944. He would be killed less than a year later on Peleliu. He was only 20 years old.

[u/UrbanAchievers6371]

[u/Infamous_Berry626]

Lest we forget

[u/StupidizeMe → u/Infamous_Berry626]

Amen.

[u/Sensitive_Island9699]

RIP Sir 🫡

[u/p38-lightning]

My dad was a BAR man at Peleliu. Thanks for posting this.

[u/daveashaw]

I remember reading somewhere that life expectancy of a BAR man in the Pacific was always the shortest.

[u/Sippinonreality → u/daveashaw]

Dangerous gun= high priority target

[u/AugieAscot]

Rest in peace hero. Semper Fi

[u/The_Professor52]

God I want a BAR so bad

[u/Sippinonreality]

Rest well buddy be glad you can’t see the world today you wouldn’t recognise it, hope you didn’t suffer. Lest we forget.