The Machine Gunners

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Ayres, Leonard P. (1919). The War with Germany (Seconded.). Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. p. 65.Gun Stripping: At one point the children strip the gun down, and then realise they don't know how to reassemble it. Westall provides vivid and realistic descriptions of the bombings and their aftermath. Chas safely collects pieces of shiny shrapnel in the streets but also comes face-to-face with a dead, disfigured, and decaying German soldier. The realism in The Machine Gunners draws the reader into a world where people have no choice but to live with the brutality of war on a daily basis. Death and destruction become so commonplace that Chas's Uncle George can pull dead children from the rubble of a destroyed building and then proceed to sit comfortably down to lunch. In 1832, a machine capable of firing 500 rifle shots a minute was devised by Hamel, a French mechanic. [56] In 1864, in the aftermath of the Second Schleswig War, Denmark started a program intended to develop a gun that used the recoil of a fired shot to reload the firearm though a working model would not be produced until 1888. [81]

The Bully: Boddser Brown, the Garmouth Grammar School bully and Chas' most avid rival in the great game of collecting war souvenirs. Willbanks, James H. (April 10, 2004). Machine Guns: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851094806– via Google Books. Light machine guns are designed to provide mobile fire support to a squad and are typically air-cooled weapons fitted with a box magazine or drum and a bipod; they may use full-size rifle rounds, but modern examples often use intermediate rounds. Medium machine guns use full-sized rifle rounds and are designed to be used from fixed positions mounted on a tripod. The heavy machine gun is a term originating in World War I to describe heavyweight medium machine guns and persisted into World War II with Japanese Hotchkiss M1914 clones; today, however, it is used to refer to automatic weapons with a caliber of at least 12.7mm (0.5in), [3] but less than 20mm (0.8in). A general-purpose machine gun is usually a lightweight medium machine gun that can either be used with a bipod and drum in the light machine gun role or a tripod and belt feed in the medium machine gun role. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.The Machine Gunners is a children's historical novel by Robert Westall, published by Macmillan in 1975. Set in northeastern England shortly after the Battle of Britain (February 1941), it features children who find a crashed German aircraft with a machine gun and ammunition; they build a fortress and capture and imprison a German gunner. The author also wrote a play based on the book, and others have adapted it for television and radio. A sequel, Fathom Five, set two years later, was published in 1979. Also in 1775, a breech-loading volley gun, similar to the later mitrailleuse, was invented by a Frenchman called Du Perron which was worked by 3 or 4 men and capable of discharging 24 barrels 10 times a minute for a total rate of fire of 240 shots per minute. [34] The first successful machine-gun designs were developed in the mid-19th century. The key characteristic of modern machine guns, their relatively high rate of fire and more importantly mechanical loading, [5] first appeared in the Model 1862 Gatling gun, which was adopted by the United States Navy. These weapons were still powered by hand; however, this changed with Hiram Maxim's idea of harnessing recoil energy to power reloading in his Maxim machine gun. Dr. Gatling also experimented with electric-motor-powered models; as discussed above, this externally powered machine reloading has seen use in modern weapons as well. In 1842, Dr. Thomson or Thompson, an American, invented a cannon fed by pre-loaded breech-pieces with 4 barrels that was operated by means of a revolving cylinder and could be fired 50 times in as many seconds or even up to 500 times in 500 seconds. [63] [64]

It's the middle of the night when three church bells ring; the Germans are raiding Garmouth on foot. Chas, Audrey, and Cem, much to their parents worry, run out of the bomb shelter to fort Caparetto. Worcester.), Edward SOMERSET (2nd Marquis of (April 3, 1825). "A Century of the Names and Scantlings of Such Inventions, as at Present I Can Call to Mind to Have Tried and Perfected, Etc. With Historical and Explanatory Notes, and a Biographical Memoir by C.F. Partington"– via Google Books. As a class of military kinetic projectile weapons, machine guns are designed to be mainly used as infantry support weapons and generally used when attached to a bipod or tripod, a fixed mount or a heavy weapons platform for stability against recoils. Many machine guns also use belt feeding and open bolt operation, features not normally found on other infantry firearms.HyperWar: The Machine Gun (Vol. I/Part III)". Ibiblio.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017 . Retrieved 23 December 2017. Procès-verbal de l'Assemblée des communes et de l'Assemblée nationale, imprimé par son ordre. Chez Badouin, Impr. de l'Assemblée nationale. In 1847, a short description of a prototype electrically ignited mechanical machine gun was published in Scientific American by J.R. Nichols. The model described is small in scale and works by rotating a series of barrels vertically so that it is feeding at the top from a "tube" or hopper and could be discharged immediately at any elevation after having received a charge, according to the author. [70] Further information: Ground mount This M60 machine gun is part of an XM2 armament subsystem; it is aimed and fired from the aircraft rather than directly.