GERMANY AIRCRAFT WEAPONRY: Machine Guns, Cannon and Aerial Artillery in Luftwaffe Service, 1939-1945

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A detailed study of German Luftwaffe aircraft weapons in WWII, covering development, use, and firsthand accounts. Examines the use of the rifle caliber machine gun as an aircraft weapon along with the efforts to develop suitable cannon with greater destructive power for aircraft use, the advances made during the inter-war years, and the various barreled weaponry either used or proposed by the German Luftwaffe in the Second World War. Encompasses the technical and operational appraisals of the various weapons used by the German Luftwaffe aircrews as well as the armorers tasked with their day-to-day maintenance, the instructors and technicians on the ground, and those who found themselves at the receiving end of their firepower both in the air and on the ground. Contains 40 mono illustrations.