| Photo at right is rather murky, it was scanned from a copy of "The Official Record of our War with Spain" which was printed by the US Government in 1900. Unfortunately the information was equally murky, no mention of ship or unit was mentioned, only the caption that you see. Even though the image quality is not the best, one can clearly see the difference in profile between the Winchester-Lee rifle and the GEW 88 rifles. | 
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Photo at left was provided by Mike Weight. Note the Navy
"bluejackets" in the background on the left. The rifle racks are holding
Winchester-Lee straight-pull rifles. Cartridge belts are hung over
them.
This photo was scanned from Mike's September 1898 issue of Scribner's Magazine, an article called "A Warship Community" by W. J. Henderson. The picture is actually captioned "Marine Quarters" with a sub-caption "Gun Deck, Cruiser Brooklyn". No date, but since these are very clearly Win.-Lee Navy muskets, it's got to be after 1897 & before September 1898. See
Edison Mfg. Co. footage of the USS BROOKLYN's Marines on parade in
NYC, October 1898 |
| Photo at right is a scan of two sides of an old Cuban postcard
showing US Navy troops in the field at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 635 Marines
armed with Winchester-Lee rifles landed at Guantanamo Bay and took it from
the Spanish in 1898. Click on the postcard to view a larger image! |
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