Air Power at the Battlefront
Air Power at the Battlefront

Author: Ian Gooderson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780714642116

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Ian Gooderson presents a study of close air support in World War II, with the analysis focusing on the use of tactical air power by British and American forces during the campaigns in Italy and northwestern Europe between 1943 and 1945.

Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns
Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns

Author: Gordon L. Rottman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1849083312

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The Browning “50-cal” has become the longest serving weapon in the US inventory. The “fifty” has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun. It is considered such an effective and reliable weapon that few countries ever attempted to develop an equivalent weapon. Even the Japanese created a copy of it during World War II when the US was producing literally thousands every month to use in every theater. This is a history of the development of this famous weapon, its most critical operational use and the variants that have been produced to keep it at the forefront of the action.