Indirect Fire with Machine Guns [1916, British Army]
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- Indirect Fire with Machine Guns [1916, British Army]
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- 1916
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Indirect Fire with Machine Guns [1916, British Army]
Author: M. G.
Year: 1916
Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the University of Chicago, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below. A description from a “Book List” download from machineguncorps.co.uk (called mcgbooks.doc) says “Published and Printed by WS Paine & Co, 9 High St, Hythe 1916 This is an instructional manual probably emanating from the School of Musketry, located at Hythe. It was obviously intended for use by machine gun officers and contains precise and detailed tables, graphs and examples of how to report on machine gun actions. One of several such booklets, some of which are advertised for sale on the final page, and all produced by instructors of the Hythe Staff”. The Foreword says "The rapid developement of the machine gun service makes it very hard to put into book form anything which will be of more than temporary value, but no matter how or what aids to laying of the gun may be adopted the principles here laid down as regards accuracy of shooting and safety to Own Front Line will be found useful, and as the only object sought is to enable Machine Gunners to use their weapons to best advantage I hope it will be considered a step in the right direction. If it