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Issued in April 1918 - the very month that the R.A.F. was founded out of the Royal Flying Corps - this booklet is an instructional manual on the use of the American-made Lewis Gun, which was fast becoming the standard British machine gun of the Great War - in the air as well as on the ground.The booklet contains instructions for stripping the gun; notes on its mechanism; its care and cleaning; the likely causes of jams and stoppages; minor repairs; spare parts; ammunition and aiming. This booklet is a facsimile reprint of the copy held in the War Office Library and contains amendments and additions typed and pasted into the original.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Military history

• Full title: R.A.F. Instructional Notes on the Lewis Gun, 1918
• Author: The General Staff
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56
• EAN: 9781847348289
• ISBN: 9781847348289
• ID: 06526172
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press Ltd
• Weight: 62 g
• Dimensions: 191 × 98 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. February 2009

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