Browning .50 Caliber Machine Guns (Weapon, 4, Band 4) - Softcover

Rottman, Gordon L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849083304 ISBN 13: 9781849083300

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010

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Osprey's new Weapon series provides a highly-detailed yet affordable overview of the development, use, and impact of small arms throughout history-from the sword to the machine gun.

In this volume, Gordon Rottman examines this history of the longest serving weapon in the U.S. military's small arms inventory. Thoroughly researched and illustrated with rare photographs and original artwork by Johnny Shumate, the book takes readers from the origins of the “fifty” on the battlefields of World War I (1914-1918) to its use in the war on terror today. Rottman provides lists of the companies that manufactured the Browning and analyzes the variants that have arisen over the years since it first entered service in 1933. He also provides descriptions and photos of how it was used on aircraft, ships, riverboats, tanks, Humvees, and by ground forces. A cutaway illustration from Alan Gilliland details the parts of the weapon and a final chapter dispels myths told about it.

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Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969-70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long-range patrol and intelligence assignments until retiring after 26 years. He was a Special Operations Forces scenario writer at the Joint Readiness Training Center for 12 years and is now a freelance writer, living in Texas. The author lives in Cypress, TX.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1849083304
• ISBN 13: 9781849083300
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Gilliland Alan
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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