Browning .30-caliber Machine Guns

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Browning .30-caliber Machine Guns

First World War Second World War Weapons and equipment Ordnance, weapons technology Militaria, arms and armour

Author: Gordon L. Rottman

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Language: English

Published by: Osprey Publishing

Published on: 20th February 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 80 pages

ISBN: 9781472808042


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.

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