Someone needs to tell these guys a thing or two about trigger discipline, or else this really could have been a case of friendly fire. Seeing as there’s a bottle of booze (probably a native made rum) I’m assuming they thought taking this picture was a good idea at the time. All kidding aside, the above photograph was taken between 1899 and 1900 during the Philippine-American war and is from the Manila Branch Studio of Japanese photographer T. Enami.
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Are those the infamous .38 special revolvers they developed to stop the drugged up Filipino “rebels” they couldn’t put down with their other pistols?