WPN04: Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns

Author
Gordon L Rottman

Author
Alan Gilliland

Author
Johnny Shumate

About this book
The Browning “50-cal” has become the longest serving weapon in the US inventory. The “fifty” has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun. It is considered such an effective and reliable weapon that few countries ever attempted to develop an equivalent weapon. Even the Japanese created a copy of it during World War II when the US was producing literally thousands every month to use in every theater. This is a history of the development of this famous weapon, its most critical operational use and the variants that have been produced to keep it at the forefront of the action.

Contents

• Introduction
• Development
• Use
• Impact
• Conclusion

Paperback; October 2010; 80 pages; ISBN: 9781849083300