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Lewis Automatic Machine Gun

by Schroder, E. C.

$250 · Offered by Biblio

n.p.: U.S. Army, c. 1918. fair to good. 8 x 10.5 , 14, wraps, papers pinned together in upper left corner with straight pin, text has darkened, print is light. Small edge tears and chips to last page. The author, Captain E. C. Schroeder, was with the 71st New York Infantry, and was a machine gun instructor. This scarce World War I training material contains six papers: 1. mechanism and the chief features of the Lewis gun (2 pages); 2. special method for learning Lewis gun mechanism (6 pages); 3. Parts of Lewis Automatic Machine Gun (1 page--2 copies); 4. Lewis gun, nomenclature of parts, 1917 model, .30 calibre (1 page); 5. sequence of stripping and assembling Lewis Machine Gun (1 page); 6. Lewis gun stoppages (3 pages).

  • Publisher: U.S. Army
  • Year: 1918
  • Binding: paperback

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