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I have listed most of the sources I used for this site. The only omissions are out of print books I took the odd photo from, but which otherwise had little bearing on this subject. There is also a section on War Department manuals. Many were used as reference material for this site, but not all. I have included a few that while not used, have material which would provide information on the Browning machine guns in other configurations, such as water-cooled ground guns. Bookfinder.com is a good source for out of print volumes. |
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I like to know what a book looks
like, particularly if it is one I may want to keep an eye out for at used book stores. Click on a book above to see its cover. |
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Click on button at left to see the contents of this CD. It's loaded with WW2 era aircraft gunnery information. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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TRAINING AND FIELD MANUALS >TM
9-1225, Ordnance Maintenance, Browning machine Gun, Cal..50, All Types,
War Dept., April 15, 1943. |
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This is a link to my other Browning sights which deal mainly with ground water-cooled and air-cooled .30 caliber weapons. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Not from my dad's unit, the 461st BG, but taking part in the same mission, this Liberator from the 464th BG took a flak hit to the left wing. Lift from the right wing has caused the aircraft to roll. Dad saw this happen from his nose turret. This is one of the most frequently reprinted aviation photos from WW2. This is how the photo appeared in Sortie (I believe. Could have come from Stars and Strips - dad didn't note the source) Only one crew member survived. In the upper left hand corner dad has written, "Saw this happen on 18th Mission." It was actually the 15th - a mission in support of the 8th Army's push across the Senio river on the 10th of April, 1945. The aircraft is a B-24M. |
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Tight formations often meant that a flak hit to one bomber would cause a domino effect. Here the body of an airman from a disintegrating plane higher in the formation has hit the outer wing panel of this B-25D and sheared it off. The efficient and thin Davis wing was a tremendous improvement over the broad profile and lower lift characteristics of the B-17's wing, but the tradeoff was the Davis wing could not stand up to much punishment. This incident occurred during one of the early missions over Ploesti, Romania, the Third Reich's major oil refining facility and the most heavily defended target in Europe. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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