WORLD WAR I.

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Collection of five American handbooks for machine guns. A well-preserved group of technical manuals exploring the development of the weapon that, above all others, embodied the mechanized brutality of the First World War. By the final year of the war, models could fire up to 600 rounds per minute.The US Army was slow to adopt machine guns until Washington's entry into the war in 1917. After it became available in 1918, the Browning M1917 (a manual for which is included here) became the favoured choice, and 1,200 were deployed to the western front. The model remained in use for the next four decades. a) Handbook of the Marlin Aircraft Machine Gun. Model of 1917. New Haven, Connecticut: Marlin-Rockwell Corporation, [c. 1917].b) Handbook of the Marlin Aircraft Machine Gun. Model of 1917. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918.c) Handbook of the Lewis Machine Gun. Caliber.30. Model of 1917. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1917.d) Lewis Machine Gun (Airplane Type). Utica, New York: Savage Arms Corporation, [c. 1917].e) Handbook of the Browning Machine Gun. Model of 1917. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Ordnance, 1918.

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