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Flying Guns World War II: Development of Aircraft Guns, Ammunition and Installations 1933-45 Hardback - 2003

by Anthony G. Williams

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This book describes the history of aircraft guns, their ammunition and their installations in aircraft. It commences with a technical history covering the development of guns, their ammunition, and related issues such as mountings and sights. This is followed by chapters on aircraft installations covering all nations and an evaluation of their use in combat. Appendices include comprehensive tables of the gun installations of World War II combat aircraft with details and illustrations of the guns used and specifications of their ammunition. There has never before been a comprehensive description of World War II aircraft gun armament. This book has been written with the aim of being the definitive work on this subject, dealing with armament of all participating air forces. Every technical aspect has been covered: gun design in the full range of sizes from small-caliber machine guns to heavy cannon; ammunition types and their use; fixed, flexible and turreted installations and gun sights. Comparative drawings and specifications of service weapons are provided, plus illustrations and data concerning their ammunition.

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  • Title Flying Guns World War II: Development of Aircraft Guns, Ammunition and Installations 1933-45
  • Author Anthony G. Williams
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crowood Press (UK), United Kingdom
  • Publication date June 8, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781840372274 / 1840372273
  • Weight 2.36 lbs (1.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7.75 x 1 in (25.40 x 19.69 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, Airplanes, Military - Armament
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004484948
  • Dewey Decimal Code 623.746

About the author

Anthony G. Williams is an ammunition specialist. He was an editor of Jane's Weapons: Ammunition for thirteen years, contemporaneously with being editor of The Cartridge Researcher, the journal of the European Cartridge Research Association, for over fifteen years, thereby covering both the modern and historic aspects of ammunition. He is the author Rapid Fire, Assault Rifle [with Maxim Popenker] and the Flying Guns trilogy [with Dr Emmanuel Gustin], which describes the development of aircraft guns, ammunition and installations from 1914 to the present day. For more than a decade he has made numerous presentations on aspects of military ammunition to international conferences such as the annual symposia held at the Ministry of Defence Academy at Shrivenham and the National Defence Industries Association conferences in the USA, and he maintains a military gun and ammunition website at quarryhs.co.uk

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