The Machine Gun

George M. Chinn

Table of contents :
Preface……Page 4
Contents……Page 7
Illustrations……Page 21
Part 8 Automatic Weapon Development During & After WW2 By The United States……Page 35
Ch1 Automatic Gun Designations of the Armed Services……Page 36
Ch2 Ordnance Corps Gas Operated Revolver Cannon……Page 76
Ch3 Ordnance Corps Power Driven Multi Barrel Revolver Cannon……Page 120
Ch4 Ordnance Corps Short Recoil-Operated Automatic Machine Gun……Page 137
Ch5 75mm American Aircraft Cannon Development……Page 186
Ch6 Bureau of Ordnance Revolver Cannon ( Marquardt)……Page 196
Ch7 Bureau of Ordnance Gas Operated Aircraft Cannon (Shirgun)……Page 217
Ch8 Armour Aircraft Automatic Cannon & Related Models……Page 260
Ch9 20mm Colt Aircraft Cannon Based on German Mauser MG-151/20……Page 293
Ch10 20mm Johnson Aircraft Cannon……Page 315
Ch11 Browning Caliber .50 Machine Guns……Page 342
Ch12 Browning 37mm Aircraft Automatic Cannon……Page 377
Ch13 US Aircraft Cannon Development Based on the BIRKIGT Type 404 (Hispano-Suiza)……Page 407
Ch14 Ordnance Corps Light Machine Gun 7.92mm……Page 448
Part 9 Automatic Weapon Development During & After WW2 By Other World Powers (Except USSR & Her Satellites)……Page 459
Ch15 Rolls Royce Aircraft Cannon……Page 460
Ch16 Vickers Automatic 40-mm Aircraft Cannon (“S” Gun)……Page 481
Ch17 57mm British Automatic Aircraft Cannon……Page 490
Ch18 30mm British Aircraft Cannon (Aden)……Page 529
Ch19 25mm Hotchkiss Automatic Gun……Page 546
Ch20 Hispano Suiza Aircraft Cannon Development in Switzerland & Great Britain……Page 550
Ch21 Oerlikon Automatic Cannon Development……Page 566
Ch22 Bofors Automatic Cannon……Page 594
Ch23 23mm Madsen Automatic Aircraft Cannon……Page 605
Ch24 Krieghoff Experimental Cannon……Page 612
Ch25 Captured Rheinmetall Aircraft Weapons……Page 626
Ch26 Experimental 47mm Aircraft Machine Gun (Italian)……Page 661
Ch27 Japanese Automatic Aircraft Cannon Development……Page 666
Index……Page 671
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