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"The series of books entitled "The machine gun" was begun with the belief that the next best thing to actual knowledge is knowing where to find it. The research summarized within the covers of these volumes has been compiled by the Bureau of Ordinance, Department of the Navy, in order to place in the hands of those rightfully interested in the art of automatic weapon design, the world's recorded progress in this field of endeavor."--Vol. II, p. v.
This Provisional Machine Gun Firing Manual contains the following sections: General Scheme, Individual Instruction, Combat Firing, The Theory of Fire, Targets and Ranges, Miscellaneous, and Courses for Organizations Not in Regular Service. The following topics are discussed: use, care, and repair of machine guns; mechanics of the gun; physical training; sighting, positioning, and aiming drills; use of field glasses, range finders, mil scale, sights, prismatic compass, clinometer and hand level; determination of ranges on the ground by eye, from a map, from troops already engaged, measured directly on the ground, by sound, by range finder, and through range estimators; recognition and designation of service targets; known distance practice; record practice; determination of sight setting; instruction field firing; indirect fire; overhead fire; night firing; individual qualification tests; firing problems; drill exercises; the conduct of field-firing exercises; the critique of field-firing exercises; combat practice record; ballistic qualities of machine guns; rates and volumes and their relation to effectiveness; adjustment of fire; target for obtaining sight setting of machine guns, known distance targets, and field targets; class A range, machine gun range, class B range, and range regulations; classification, insignia, and extra compensation; and syllabus of combat training.
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 Although it was superseded by the Bren in British service in 1937, the outbreak of World War II meant that thousands returned to active service, and it played a key role as far afield as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.