Download or read book The Lewis Gun written by Neil Grant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, the British adopted the US-designed Lewis gun as an infantry weapon, realizing that its light weight and the fact that it could be fired both prone and on the move made it ideal for supporting advances and defending captured trenches. Later adopted by an array of countries from the Netherlands to Japan, the Lewis successfully served as the primary or secondary armament in armoured fighting vehicles and in both ground-based anti-aircraft and aircraft-mounted roles. Although it was superseded by the Bren in British service in 1937, the outbreak of World War II meant that thousands returned to active service, and it played a key role as far afield as Libya, with the Long-Range Desert Group, and the Philippines, with the US Marine Corps. Written by an authority on this iconic light machine gun, this is the fascinating story of the innovative and influential Lewis gun, from the trenches of World War I to the Libyan desert and Pacific islands of World War II and beyond.
Download or read book The Lewis Gun written by Neil Grant and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 US Army. The British quickly came to realise that while the new weapon was unable to match its heavier cousin in terms of robustness and sustained firepower, its light weight and the fact that it could be fired both prone and on the move made it an ideal weapon both to support advances and defend captured trenches. Serving on the Western Front and across the world, the Lewis gun soon became the core of the British and Dominion infantry section, and was widely adopted by the Germans too; even so, the US Marine Corps found on landing in France that their Lewis guns were replaced by an inferior French weapon, the CSRG 'Chauchat'. Although offering significant advantages over its rivals, such as the Danish Madsen, American BAR and German MG 08/15, the Lewis was not without its faults. Although the distinctive cooling tube proved to be a very effective flash hider and the weapon's 'forced cooling' system and open-bolt design helped to limit overheating, like all fixed-barrel guns it couldn't offer true sustained fire. Its magazine feed system made it easier to carry than rival models employing non-disintegrating fabric belts, which trailed everywhere, picked up water and froze, but the Lewis's open-bottom pan magazine let dirt into the mechanism, and the pans were relatively flimsy. Even so, it won a lasting reputation and became an iconic weapon of World War I. Adopted by an array of countries from the Netherlands to Japan during and after World War I, the Lewis successfully served as the primary or secondary armament in armoured fighting vehicles and in both ground-based anti-aircraft and aircraft-mounted roles, being the first weapon to be used to shoot down an enemy aircraft from an aeroplane - indeed, it was the most important aircraft-mounted machine gun in virtually every air force well into the 1930s. Although it was superseded by the Bren in British service in 1937, the outbreak of World War II meant that thousands returned to active service to counter weapons shortages, and it played a key role as far afield as Libya, with the Long-Range Desert Group, and the Philippines, with the US Marine Corps. Fully illustrated and written by an authority on this iconic weapon, this is the fascinating story of the innovative and influential Lewis gun, from the trenches of World War I to the Libyan desert and Pacific islands of World War II and beyond.
Download or read book Operation and Tactical Use of the Lewis Automatic Machine Rifle written by Isaac Newton Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lewis Gun written by J. David Truby and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Belgian Rattlesnake written by William McCleave Easterly and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mechanism of the Lewis Gun written by LEWIS GUN. and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Instruction on the Lewis Automatic Machine Gun written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 300 Lewis MacHine Gun for the Home Guard 1940 Manual written by H. W. Bodman and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The .300 Lewis, an updated version of a weapon well-known to the British Army in the Great War, was designed to pack a punch in firepower with economy of operating personnel. With an effective range of 1,000 yards, the gun was air-cooled and susceptible to over-heating, a defect that the manual advises can be avoided by firing in short, five-second bursts. An advantage of the gun is that that its cartridges are continuously under mechanical control, and it can therefore be fired at any angle of elevation or depression, and can even be tilted sideways or upside down. With chapters on stripping, assembling, adjustment of return spring tension, firing, care and cleaning, stoppages and replacing parts this is the complete guide to the .300 Lewis for instructors and students alike.
Download or read book Handbook of the Lewis Machine Gun Caliber 30 Model of 1917 written by United States. Army. Ordnance Department and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mechanism of the Lewis Gun written by and published by . This book was released on 192? with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lewis Gun Mechanism Made Easy written by C. H. B. Pridham and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US-made Lewis gun, with its distinctive circular ammunition drums, replaced the VIckers as the standard British Army machine gun in the First World War. This 1941 reprint of a manual first published in January 1919 shows that the versatile Lewis was still a popular and effective weapon twenty years later. Written by a former Officer-Instructor at the Army s School of Musketry at Hythe in Kent, the booklet describes the correct loading and unloading of the gun; the action of the firing mechanism; the magazine; the action of gases and the cooling system and notes on how to deal with jams and stoppages.
Download or read book Complete Lewis Gunnerwith Notes on the 300 American Lewis Gun written by Anon and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US-manufactured Lewis gun replaced the Vickers as the standard machine gun of the British Army in the First World War. The 1941 re-issue of the instruction manual first published in 1918 proves that the Lewis was still valued in the Second World War. The booklet opens with general instructions on how the gun is loaded, fed, fired, cooled and operated. There are chapters on stripping and assembling the gun, how to cope with stoppages and elementary drill.
Download or read book Instructional Notes on the Lewis Gun written by Great Britain. Royal Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Method of Instruction in the Lewis Gun 1917 written by The General Staff and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief and clearly phrased basic instruction manual on the Lewis Gun, the versatile American made weapon that became the standard issue machine gun for the British Army in the Great War. The booklet, published in May 1917, tells how to strip and assemble the gun; how to load, aim and fire it; and how to clean it and maintain it after action. There are also sections on elementary drill and stoppages.
Download or read book The Lewis Gun Self Instructor written by Charles Arthur Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gun written by Fuminori Nakamura and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tokyo college student’s discovery and eventual obsession with a stolen handgun awakens something dark inside him. On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, beside which lies a gun. From the moment Nishikawa decides to take the gun, the world around him blurs. Knowing he possesses the weapon brings an intoxicating sense of purpose to his dull university life. But soon Nishikawa’s personal entanglements become unexpectedly complicated: he finds himself romantically involved with two women while his biological father, whom he’s never met, lies dying in a hospital. Through it all, he can’t stop thinking about the gun—and the four bullets loaded in its chamber. As he spirals into obsession, his focus is consumed by one idea: that possessing the gun is no longer enough—he must fire it.
Download or read book The Tactical Employment of Lewis Guns January 1918 written by The General Staff and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official guide to the American-made Lewis Gun - the standard machine gun employed by the British army in the middle and later stages of the Great War. There are chapters on the gun s characteristics, the duties of officers in charge of the guns; the use of Lewis guns in offensive and defensive trench to trench attacks as well as in open warfare; and the employment of Lewis guns against aircraft. With appendices on firing the gun from the hip; ammunition; drill and instructions (and photographs) showing the correct carrying of Lewis Gun magazines this booklet tells you all you need to know about this famous gun.
