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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The Thompson Submachine Gun Mechanism Made Easy written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Yenne
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429964871
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Tommy Gun written by Bill Yenne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trench Broom. The Annihilator. The Persuader. The Chopper. The Chicago Typewriter. The Tommy Gun. The Thompson submachine gun has gone by many names, and for nearly a century the gun's image has been indelibly marked on the popular consciousness. In this broad-reaching cultural and military history, Bill Yenne charts the tommy gun's unpredictable and one-of-a-kind career, from its infamy in the hands of Al Capone and the Chicago mobsters, to its shady days with the IRA, to its indelible place in the arsenal of World War II, and its truly immortal and ongoing role in Hollywood. The tommy gun is without a doubt the most famous, and the most infamous, American firearm of the twentieth century. Since its birth in the aftermath of World War I, the tommy gun has enjoyed a varied career on both sides of the law. Though General John T. Thompson invented it for the American military, it first found notoriety thanks to its part in events such at St. Valentine's Day Massacre. But when the United States entered World War II, the gun's true power as an essential, life-saving weapon made it an iconic weapon of the American GI. Full of incredible stories from the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific, America's gangland, and Hollywood studio back lots, Bill Yenne's Tommy Gun is the definitive story of this unique American icon.
Author : United States. War Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Basic Field Manual written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Iannamico
Publisher : Chipotle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780982391877
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (918 download)
Download or read book American Thunder written by Frank Iannamico and published by Chipotle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of the famous Thompson submachine gun. Fielded by the United States and her allies during World War II. This is the third printing of American Thunder; the Military Thompson Submachinegun Guns. The concept of the Thompson originated during World War I, by John T. Thompson. By the time the weapon was designed and placed into production, the war had ended. Post war sales were made to a few law enforcement agencies and corporations, but some ended up in the hands of criminals, earning the gun a sinister reputation. Nearly twenty years later, at the beginning of World War II, there was a desperate need for weapons, and the Thompson was placed back in production. The submachine gun was issued to U.S. and allied military forces and helped win the war. 412 pages, color and black/white photos.
Author : Anon
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783319497
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book THE THOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUN written by Anon and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series of Second World War booklets on weapons intended for the training of recruits, this treatise is dedicated to the venerable military type Thompson .45 calibre submachine gun. This model (M1928) had provisions for box and drum magazines. It had a Cutts compensator, cooling fins on the barrel, employed a delayed blowback action and its charging handle was on the top of the receiver. The booklet describes the correct loading and unloading of the gun; the action of the firing mechanism; the magazines; the action of gases and the cooling system and notes on how to deal with jams and stoppages. The Thompson was used in World War II in the hands of Allied troops as a weapon for scouts, non-commissioned officers (corporal, sergeant and higher) and patrol leaders, as well as commissioned officers, tank crewmen and soldiers performing raids on German positions. In the European theatre, the gun was widely utilised in British and Canadian commando units, as well as in the US Army paratrooper and Ranger battalions, where it was issued more frequently than in line infantry units because of its high rate of fire and its stopping power, which made it very effective in the kinds of close combat these special operations troops were expected to undertake. Military Police were fond of it, as were paratroopers, who 'borrowed' Thompsons from members of mortar squads for use on patrols behind enemy lines. The gun was prized by those lucky enough to get one and proved itself in the close street fighting that was encountered frequently during the invasion of France. Through Lend-Lease, the Soviet Union also received the Thompson, but due to a shortage of appropriate ammunition, its use was not widespread. The Thompson submachine gun was also known informally as the 'Tommy Gun', 'Street Sweeper', 'Annihilator', 'Chicago Typewriter', 'Trench Broom', 'Chicago Submachine', 'Chicago Piano', 'Chicago Style', 'Chicago Organ Grinder', 'Drum Gun', 'the Chopper', 'the Tommy Boy' or simply 'the Thompson', and is one of the most well-known and recognised firearms in history.
Author : Roger A. Cox
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Thompson Submachine Gun written by Roger A. Cox and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783312559
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)
Download or read book . 300 Vickers Machine Gun Mechanism Made Easy written by Anon and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series of Second World War booklets on weapons intended for the training of recruits, this treatise is dedicated to the venerable Vickers machine gun. A weapon that saw service 20 years before in the Great War, this book, with the help of photographs, tells us all we need to know about the Vickers.
Author : Chris Ellis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Thompson Submachine Gun written by Chris Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Ward
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783831545
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)
Download or read book A Guide to War Publications of the First & Second World War written by Arthur Ward and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In WW2 information leaflets and posters proliferated. Soldiers were bombarded with Field Regulations, airmen with the latest updates about airborne early warning, bomb sights and radio navigation and sailors with material that helped them identify enemy aircraft and submarines and told them how to operate the new ship board weapons to destroy them.??An abundance of familiar slogans exhorted the population to do the utmost: 'Go To IT!', 'Come Into The Factories', 'Keep Calm and Carry On', 'Dig For Victory', 'Lend A Hand on the Land', 'Walk When You Can'. Other messages warned of the consequences of irresponsible behaviour: 'Careless Talk Cost Lives', 'Loose Lips Sink Ships', 'Keep It Under Your Hat' and 'Be Like Dad, Keep Mum', the latter illustrating just how much social mores have, thankfully, changed in the last 75 years.??This book is concerned with the plethora of printed ephemera that was designed to educate, instruct, inform and entertain. Such original material can still be bought and is easy to store ÛÒ the posters also often making attractive items for display ÛÒ but as with all other authentic historical material supply is finite and examples of wartime publications in first class condition command a high price. This is the first time a single volume has been dedicated entirely to a long overlooked component of wartime collectables. It is designed to complement books which focus on traditional militaria such as uniforms, equipment and regalia and is intended to reveal just how much material was produced, across the board, by each of the warring nations. It will advise enthusiasts about what was produced, what is still available and where to find it and, importantly, how to conserve and store such vintage printed items.
Author : C. H. B. Pridham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847348159
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Lewis Gun Mechanism Made Easy written by C. H. B. Pridham and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US-made Lewis gun, with its distinctive circular ammunition drums, replaced the VIckers as the standard British Army machine gun in the First World War. This 1941 reprint of a manual first published in January 1919 shows that the versatile Lewis was still a popular and effective weapon twenty years later. Written by a former Officer-Instructor at the Army s School of Musketry at Hythe in Kent, the booklet describes the correct loading and unloading of the gun; the action of the firing mechanism; the magazine; the action of gases and the cooling system and notes on how to deal with jams and stoppages.
Download or read book The Vickers machine gun mechanism made easy written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald B. McLean
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Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Thompson Submachine Guns written by Donald B. McLean and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Thompson Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M 1928 A 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Pegler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849086540
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Thompson Submachine Gun written by Martin Pegler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thompson submachine gun, or Tommy gun developed an almost iconic status during the 20th century. It had an unusual beginning, for it was developed during the dying days of World War I as a 'one-man, hand-held machine gun.' The war ended before these first prototypes could be shipped to Europe but once the M1921 Thompson formally entered production it was used by the criminals working in Chicago and New York during the 1920s. With the police increasingly outgunned they too were forced to equip themselves with the Tommy gun. It quickly came to be used in Hollywood films, and by the end of the 1930s it would have probably faded from view had history not intervened. With the entry of the US into World War II there was an urgent need to equip and arm a force of epic proportions; the Thompson submachine gun began a second career as part of the US Army. It also became the weapon of choice for the small band of British commandos as they conducted a number of daring raids against the heart of occupied Europe.
Author : United States. Army. Ordnance Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Ordnance Maintenance written by United States. Army. Ordnance Department and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Grant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178200792X
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Lewis Gun written by Neil Grant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, the British adopted the US-designed Lewis gun as an infantry weapon, realizing that its light weight and the fact that it could be fired both prone and on the move made it ideal for supporting advances and defending captured trenches. Later adopted by an array of countries from the Netherlands to Japan, the Lewis successfully served as the primary or secondary armament in armoured fighting vehicles and in both ground-based anti-aircraft and aircraft-mounted roles. Although it was superseded by the Bren in British service in 1937, the outbreak of World War II meant that thousands returned to active service, and it played a key role as far afield as Libya, with the Long-Range Desert Group, and the Philippines, with the US Marine Corps. Written by an authority on this iconic light machine gun, this is the fascinating story of the innovative and influential Lewis gun, from the trenches of World War I to the Libyan desert and Pacific islands of World War II and beyond.
Author : United States. War Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Basic Field Manual written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
