Author: Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472808037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
First adopted in 1917, the rugged and reliable Browning .30-caliber machine gun remained in US service into the Vietnam era, and is still occasionally found in use elsewhere even today. Produced in both water-cooled and air-cooled versions, it has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun – antipersonnel, antiaircraft, mounted on aircraft as both defensive and offensive armament, defensive armament aboard vehicles (armored and soft-skin), mounted on watercraft, and others. Employing gripping first-hand testimony and featuring specially commissioned illustrations and detailed photographs, many in color, this lively study of the Browning .30-caliber machine gun reveals the origins, combat history and legacy of this versatile and dependable weapon.
Browning .30-caliber Machine Guns
Author: Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472808037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
First adopted in 1917, the rugged and reliable Browning .30-caliber machine gun remained in US service into the Vietnam era, and is still occasionally found in use elsewhere even today. Produced in both water-cooled and air-cooled versions, it has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun – antipersonnel, antiaircraft, mounted on aircraft as both defensive and offensive armament, defensive armament aboard vehicles (armored and soft-skin), mounted on watercraft, and others. Employing gripping first-hand testimony and featuring specially commissioned illustrations and detailed photographs, many in color, this lively study of the Browning .30-caliber machine gun reveals the origins, combat history and legacy of this versatile and dependable weapon.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472808037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
First adopted in 1917, the rugged and reliable Browning .30-caliber machine gun remained in US service into the Vietnam era, and is still occasionally found in use elsewhere even today. Produced in both water-cooled and air-cooled versions, it has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun – antipersonnel, antiaircraft, mounted on aircraft as both defensive and offensive armament, defensive armament aboard vehicles (armored and soft-skin), mounted on watercraft, and others. Employing gripping first-hand testimony and featuring specially commissioned illustrations and detailed photographs, many in color, this lively study of the Browning .30-caliber machine gun reveals the origins, combat history and legacy of this versatile and dependable weapon.
The Machine Gun: History, evolution and development of manually operated, full automatic, and power driven aircraft machine guns
Author: George M. Chinn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machine guns
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
"The series of books entitled "The machine gun" was begun with the belief that the next best thing to actual knowledge is knowing where to find it. The research summarized within the covers of these volumes has been compiled by the Bureau of Ordinance, Department of the Navy, in order to place in the hands of those rightfully interested in the art of automatic weapon design, the world's recorded progress in this field of endeavor."--Vol. II, p. v.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machine guns
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
"The series of books entitled "The machine gun" was begun with the belief that the next best thing to actual knowledge is knowing where to find it. The research summarized within the covers of these volumes has been compiled by the Bureau of Ordinance, Department of the Navy, in order to place in the hands of those rightfully interested in the art of automatic weapon design, the world's recorded progress in this field of endeavor."--Vol. II, p. v.
Technical Manual
The Machine Gun, History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and Airborne Repeating Weapons
Author: Ordnance Bureau (Navy Department)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
Technical Manual
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Technical Regulations
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
United States Government Publications, a Monthly Catalog
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
United States Government Publications Monthly Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description