My grandfather loved talking about his techniques for firing his BAR in WW2. He took immense pride in devising his own style for this enormous gun, given that he was such a tiny guy, especially back in 1944. He weighed only 116 lbs. at the time, and the Browning Automatic Rifle weighed approximately 15 lbs. [...]
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Steve: How to fire a Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)
February 24th, 2010The Southtown Star article on The 95th
February 8th, 2010I did an interview with Jodi Marneris of The Southtown Star, a southside Chicago newspaper. Three of the central characters in the documentary were from the south side of Chicago (my grandfather Steve Finik, Nick Fusco and Chuck Wood), so we were excited to get an article in a “hometown” publication.
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