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| #847187 in Books | Osprey | 2014-03-18 | 2014-03-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.31 x.27 x7.13l,.55 | File type: PDF | 80 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A very interesting, well written book about a pivotal, yet forgotten weapon|By octagon|When the First World War began machine guns were relatively few in number and often treated as artillery. The heavy, water cooled guns required crews almost as large and, like artillery, they were often used for indirect fire missions against area targets (sometimes pre-registered) from stat|About the Author|Neil Grant is from a military family and grew up on a succession of army bases. Neil has a degree in archaeology, and presently works for English Heritage. The author lives in Teddington, Middlesex.
As a lightweight machine gun, the American designed Lewis Gun made a place for itself in World War I & World War II.
Although machine guns were widely issued and used during the bloody opening months of World War I, these deadly weapons proved to be too heavy to be tactically mobile. Casting around for existing designs to supplement inadequate stocks of the excellent Vickers gun, the British adopted the US-designed Lewis gun, which had not found favour with the ...
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