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	Light machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A light machine gun (LMG) is a categorization type, or class of machine guns that are generally lighter than other of machine guns of its period, and usually designed to be carried by an individual soldier, but sometimes with an assistant.
		In practice, they are either automatic rifles (machine rifles) or medium machine guns with a bipod, a stock, and sometimes a pistol grip.
		Usually an LMG, or LMG version of a firearm is intended to act as a support weapon in that it can generate a greater volume of continuous fire than the usual firearms carried by infantry soldiers, but at the cost of greater weight and higher ammunition consumption.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/LMG (248 words)

	First World War.com - Weapons of War - Machine Guns
		Machine guns of all armies were largely of the heavy variety and decidedly ill-suited to portability for use by rapidly advancing infantry troops.
		As the war developed machine guns were adapted for use on tanks on broken ground, particularly on the Western Front (where the majority of machine guns were deployed).
		Light machine guns were adopted too for incorporation into aircraft from 1915 onwards, for example the Vickers, particularly with the German adoption of interrupter equipment, which enabled the pilot to fire the gun through the aircraft's propeller blades.
	www.firstworldwar.com /weaponry/machineguns.htm (1049 words)

	Lewis .303 Light Machine Gun
		But again, as in the relationship between Maxim and Vickers, it was Lewis the soldier, who re-worked the gun designed by the Engineer McClean, producing the Lewis gun in a form which could be used tactically in the field, in the hands of soldiers who sought rugged reliability.
		The gun was cocked by hand, and the first round produced gases which pushed a piston to the rear, thus re-cocking the gun.
		The four guns at HQ were usually used in the Anti Aircraft role, but could be used to stiffen up fire to help the soldiers on to their objectives.
	www.landships.freeservers.com /lewis_mg_info.htm (1336 words)

	Lewis Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Lewis Gun was a pre-WWI era American design of machine gun most widely used by the British and Imperial armies that continued to see service all the way through to WWII.
		The gun weighed 12 kg (28 lb), only about half as much as a typical machine gun of the era such as the Vickers machine gun, and was primarily chosen because it could be carried and used by a single soldier.
		A few Lewis guns were issued for anti-aircraft use with the 97 round drums by the British Army in 1916, but the big drum did not stand up well to the arduous conditions of trench warfare and the 47 round was used thereafter.
	www.toshare.info /en/Lewis_machine_gun.htm (877 words)

	American Rifleman: American Lewis, the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Lewis Machine Gun, with its large cylindrical jacket surrounding the barrel and distinctive top-mounted pan magazine, is one of the most recognizable military arms of all time.
		On June 7, 1912, a prototype Lewis machine gun was fired by Captain Charles Chandler from a Wright Type B biplane piloted by Lt. T.D. Milling.
		Lewis was upset enough by the turn of events to call the members of the test board "ignorant hacks." Obviously, this was not conducive to furthering his career in the U.S. Army and, shortly afterward, Lewis submitted his retirement papers and left the service.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3623/is_200412/ai_n9470685 (1413 words)

	3 Sea Bees - Nieuport17-C1 Documentation
		The 17 were equipped with the Lewis machine gun on the top wing and in mid year a synchronized Vickers Machine-gun was introduced firing though the propeller.
		Sergeant Foster of number 11 squadron devised a sliding rail mounting assembly for the Lewis gun that allowed the pilot to pull the gun on and aiming it upward to fire in the under side (belly) of a enemy aircraft.
		The armament was in the beginning a Lewis machine gun mounted on top of the upper wing.
	www.3seabees.com /nieuport/documentation.html (1628 words)

	Machine Gun Books, Gunbooksales.com, Mail Order Catalog of Gun Books
		The.30 calibar Browning Machine gun was adopted by the United State Army in the closing months of Worl War One.
		The Lewis became a favorite tool of the British and Canadian "machine gun killer" teams of World War I, but U.S. "doughboys" and Marines were issued the French Chauchat, instead.
		The Lewis was the principal "free" or flexible Allied aircraft machine gun of World War I, manufactured by B.S.A. in England, Savage in the U.S.A., and Darne in France.
	www.gunbooksales.com /machineguns.htm (900 words)

	C:\canadiansoldiers.com\weapons\lmgs.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The LMG provides firepower for the assault troops of the infantry, with the ability to be moved forward quickly and redeployed in a matter of moments.
		The Lewis Machine Gun was widely used as an aircraft mounted weapon, and by the middle of the war was being issued in large numbers to infantry platoons.
		Guns in use during the First World War retained the cooling system, and Lewis guns continued in service - often as Drill Purpose only weapons - up until the adoption of the Bren in 1939.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /weapons/lmgs.htm (979 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Lewis Gun
		Designed in the United States in 1911 by U.S. Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis (and based upon an earlier overly-complex design by Samuel McLean), the Lewis gun comprised an early light machine gun widely adopted by British and Empire forces from 1915 onwards.
		As a light automatic machine gun it was considered the best and most reliable available at the time and was soon adapted for use both at sea by the Royal Navy, and for use in the air by aircraft observers (with the Vickers Gun used for forward firing through the aircraft's propeller blades).
		The Lewis Gun was belatedly adopted by the U.S. Army in 1917, manufactured in New York using 0.30 inch calibre ammunition.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/mgun_lewis.htm (457 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lewis gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The invention of the machine gun was one of the most important advances in military technology.
		The rapid and continuous gunfire from machine guns...
		Lewis, Isaac Newton (1858-1931), American soldier and inventor, best known for his invention of the Lewis machine gun, a weapon used during...
	encarta.msn.com /Lewis+gun.html (141 words)

	Lewis Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Lewis gun was invented by US Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911 but was not instantly adopted by the Americans.
		The gun weighed 12 kg (28 lb), only about half as much as the monumental Vickers machine gun, and was primarily chosen because it could be carried and used by a single soldier.
		In 1917, the U.S. Army adopted the Lewis Gun, firing the.30-06.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Lewis-Gun.htm (429 words)

	Neiuport 11
		Used by the British and French to counter the Fokker E.III, the Nieuport 11 was disadvantaged by its lack of a synchronized machine gun.
		Reloading of the gun was facilitated by the Foster gun mount, essentially a curved rail that the gun could be slid backwards and down so the pilot could reach the magazine on top of the machine gun.
		With a variety of stops on the mount the gun could be inclined to fire upwards as well.
	sped2work.tripod.com /neiuport11.html (885 words)

	Guns Magazine: The Lewis Gun - Product Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Among his many inventions was a machine gun so overburdened with gadgets that it was unsuitable for any purpose other than mechanical curiosity.
		On June 7th, 1912, with a prototype Lewis gun resting on the foot bar of his Wright Type B "aeroplane," Captain Charles DeForest Chandler, commander of the U.S. Army airfield at College Park.
		According to David Truby in his excellent book The Lewis Gun, the colonel denounced his fellow officers of the Ordnance establishment as "ignorant hacks." Then, rather than continue an exercise in futility against hidebound prejudice, Colonel Lewis turned in his retirement papers and steamed for Belgium in January, 1913.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_3_46/ai_59281217 (1448 words)

	Full Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Captain Chandler holding Lewis machine gun in Wright Model B Flyer.
		Captain Charles de Forest Chandler seated in the passenger seat of a Wright Model B Flyer holding a Lewis machine gun.
		Capt. Chandler fired the machine from a Wright Model B Flyer in flight on June 7 and 8, 1912 with Lt. Thomas DeW.
	worlddmc.ohiolink.edu /History/Details?oid=2450748 (103 words)

	Isaac Newton Lewis -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lewis graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., in 1884.
		Lewis, G.N. American chemist whose theory of the electron pair fostered understanding of the covalent bond and extended the concept of acids and bases.
		After the Lewis and Clark expedition, visions of the land west of the Mississippi filled the imagination of many Americans.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9048019?tocId=9048019 (761 words)

	Expert Testimony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		My main concern is regarding the film's suggestion that Billy Bishop landed his Nieuport 17, removed the Lewis machine gun mounted on the upper wing and fired a number of rounds into the tail assembly of his aircraft.
		It is possible that Bishop found that the gun may have jammed in that position interfering with his vision and, at the same time, being in a useless position causing nothing but aerodynamic drag.
		One other strong possibility is that the gun became dislodged and twisted off it's mount during the gyrations of aerial combat.
	www.billybishop.net /bishopF.html (1113 words)

	Weapons01
		The Lewis was pulled from the "V" clip (far left) and pulled back on the railing.
		Early Lewis Gun mounting on a French Nieuport 11 "Bebe." Reloading or clearing a jam on the Lewis Gun with this mounting was difficult and dangerous.
		It was a dangerous procedure, and being thrown from the plane to their death was not uncommon.
	www.homestead.com /ritterorden/Weapons01.html (358 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Armory: Guns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The gun could be broken down into two pieces for transport.
		British motorized machine gun battery near the Somme.
		First weight is gun weight followed by accessory type and weight.
	www.worldwar1.com /arm005.htm (88 words)

	The Aerodrome Forum - Loading a Lewis machine gun
		"The early aircraft versions of the Lewis had only a 47-round drum (a double-stacked 97-round drum was introduced in 1916) which meant that the magazine had to be changed fairly often.
		The Foster mounting solved the problem by mounting the gun on a curved track, together with a handle which allowed it to be pulled down until the gun was in front of the pilot, pointing upwards.
		Louis Arbon Strange was in fact a Captain at the time of the incident, May 10, 1915, between 0830 and 0930, between Becelaere and Menin, while attempting to attack what he identified as an Otto at 8000 feet.
	www.theaerodrome.com /forum/printthread.php?t=1644 (440 words)

	Nieuport Project Page 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This is a view of the "guts" of the machine gun.
		A section of.080 7075 aluminum 8.5" long x 1.125" was carefully bent as a support and wraps around from point H to just past point M. Half of it (sideways) was slipped into this half of the shell (after removing some foam material with an X-Acto knife).
		At point H two 3/16" x 7/16" long AN machine screws were put for the gun handle bracket.
	home.earthlink.net /~jcm2/page12.htm (698 words)

	Lewis MG 1:48 Photo-etch kit
		The Lewis machine gun was one of the most popular aerial armament of the Great War.
		Possible variants of the Lewis include the fully stripped version with or without the radiator fins, the RFC Mk II 'light case' version, and the French Darne-built version which had a vented sheath under the gas tube.
		I spray painted the gun and the magazine, with a mix of fl and gloss blue, and the stock with Testors 'Military brown'.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2002/june/aviation/TG_Lewis.htm (1013 words)

	Nieuport Progress Menu Page
		John bought the plans and the ABS plastic "shells" for the Lewis gun from Ted Callahan.
		While still working on the wings, John continues with his obsession to build a Lewis machine gun.
		Most of the group is spending time at home (in air conditioned comfort) constructing small parts for the Nieuports including tail wheel modifications as suggested by members of the Kansas City Dawn Patrol in their video.
	home.earthlink.net /~jcm2/progress.htm (298 words)

	Lewis Gun
		The Lewis Gun, a light machine gun, was developed in the United States in 1911.
		At 12 kg it was far lighter than the Vickers Machine-Gun and in 1915 the British Army decided to purchase the gun for use on the Western Front.
		Another advantage of the Lewis is that six of these guns could be made in the time taken to produce one Vickers gun.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWlewis.htm (147 words)

	Military Gun Books, Gunbooksales.com, Mail Order Catalog of Gun Books
		A chilling study of small arms development and procurement in the post Ordnance US small arms environment, wherein OSD 'whiz kids' arrogantly called the tune and shooting watermelons at a picnic passed for engineering development.
		A year-long contest amongst America's military and civilian gun designers led to the adoption of a last minute Winchester entry as "US Carbine, Caliber.30, M1" in October, 1941.
		From the first trickle of 'Inlands' in June,1942 through to a combined production peak of over 500,000 units per month in December,1943, over six million carbines were manufactured by a total of ten prime contractors, until program termination in 1945.
	www.gunbooksales.com /mil_new2.htm (1086 words)

	Lewis Gun 7/8 Scale Replica Parts Available
		The British adopted the Lewis gun as their standard light machine gun in 1915, thus beginning a "love affair" that was to last for several decades.
		Excerpted from "The Lewis Gun" by J. David Truby, an excellent source of information on the.303 caliber Lewis machine gun developed by Isasc Lewis in 1915.
		Johnny Nimmon's Nieuport 17 armed with the replica Lewis gun built from the ABS parts.
	www.foxflier.com /lewis (416 words)

	Machine Gun Military Article Photocopies
		The Gardner gun - Parts - The barrels - The casing - The bolts, 346.
		Functioning and care of the caliber 0.22 machine gun: Feed block, Barrel assemby, Bolt group, Chamber group, General precautions.
		The MG 42, Table of Characterisitics, Method of Operation, Construction, Use as Light Machine Gun, Use as Heavy Machine Gun, Use as Antiaircraft Machine Gun, Possible Use in Armored Vehicles.
	www.military-info.com /Aphoto/Subjectlist/A060i.htm (1628 words)

	HANDLEY PAGE BOMBER
		ARMAMENT: Two.303 inch Lewis machine guns in the nose, one or two.303 inch Lewis machine gun in the dorsal position, and one or two.303 inch Lewis machine gun in the ventral position.
		These photos may have been taken at Bolling Field in Washington, District of Columbia, as the Washington Monument is visible in the background of photo #2.
		ARMAMENT: Two.303 inch Lewis machine guns in the nose, one or two.303 inch Lewis machine gun in the dorsal position, two.303 inch Lewis machine gun in the ventral position, one or two.303 inch Lewis machine gun in the tail position.
	www.geocities.com /roynagl/handleypage.htm (1231 words)

	James A. Morrow's Scale Drawings - page 6
		3-views, cross-section, detail, dimensions, and mechanisms of one of the most famous aircraft machine guns.
		A 3-view drawing of a twin Lewis machine gun assembly as used in WW-I. 1/2 (21 x 30).........$7.50
		1922 - 11mm and 0.30 Vickers Machine Gun
	www.aeroaces.com /jamdrwgs6.htm (97 words)

	Ian Skennerton's
		One hundred years of issue machine and sub-machine guns, from.450 Gatling and Nordenfelt to today’s 5.56mm Minimi.
		Lanchester, Sten, Veseley, Vickers, Bren, Besa, Hotchkiss, Lewis and Thompson guns are detailed, regards contract details, quantities made and makers’ codes.
		Originally a joint record of the B.S.A. and Daimler contribution to the war effort, relevant sections on the S.M.L.E. rifle and Lewis gun production is reprinted here.
	www.skennerton.com /mgsmg.html (308 words)

	1/12 scale Lewis Machine Gun - RC Groups
		Not knowing a source for 1/12 scale Lewis guns, I had no alternative but to build my own.
		The gun is made from plywood, balsa, aluminum tube, and aluminum sheet.
		My Lewis kit prototypes are at the laser cutters.
	www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?t=183621 (554 words)

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