Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns (Google eBook)

Gordon Rottman

Osprey Publishing, Feb 8, 2011 - History - 80 pages

Osprey’s new Weapon series provides a highly-detailed yet affordable overview of the development, use, and impact of small arms throughout history—from the sword to the machine gun. In this volume, Gordon Rottman examines this history of the longest serving weapon in the U.S. military’s small arms inventory. Thoroughly researched and illustrated with rare photographs and original artwork by Johnny Shumate, the book takes readers from the origins of the “fifty” on the battlefields of WWI to its use in the war on terror today. Rottman provides lists of the companies that manufactured the Browning and analyzes the variants that have arisen over the years since it first entered service in 1933. He also provides descriptions and photos of how it was used on aircraft, ships, riverboats, tanks, Humvees, and by ground forces. A cutaway illustration from Alan Gilliland details the parts of the weapon and a final chapter dispels myths told about it.

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An amazing weapon, the Browning .50 caliber machine gun. I had no idea it had as robust a history as it does. This is one in a series entitled "Weapons" by Osprey Publishing. The creator of this ...

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 4
• DEVELOPMENT: 8
• USE: 43
• IMPACT: 72
• CONCLUSION: 77
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 79
• INDEX: 80

About the author

Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969-70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long-range patrol and intelligence assignments until retiring after 26 years. He was a Special Operations Forces scenario writer at the Joint Readiness Training Center for 12 years and is now a freelance writer, living in Texas. The author lives in Cypress, TX.


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Bibliographic information

• Title: Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns
• Author: Gordon Rottman
• Illustrated by: Alan Gilliland
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2011
• ISBN: 1849086575, 9781849086578
• Length: 80 pages
• Subjects: History / Military / General