Pl. 11
Plate 11 of 87 · Class II, Machine guns
Lewis gun
A light, air-cooled machine gun, invented by the American Isaac Newton Lewis and manufactured in Britain, that a single man could carry. It gave the infantry section its own automatic weapon and was also mounted on aircraft.
Mentioned in
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §6 Amiens: The Black Day of the German Army
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §1 Rifles and Machine Guns§6 The Learning Curve: From Lines to Combined Arms