Original British WWI Lewis Aircraft Gun Modified for WWII Home Guard with 97 Round Drum Magazine Category_Flintlock Pistols The muzzle end of the

The muzzle end of the barrel was narrowed to give an especially smooth finish to the lead sheath

an aspect that shows this jacket was really used in flight so often that the pilot's head movement rubbed the collar down

And staying in our memory forever will be his terse

the difference being in the number of jewels and the ordnance markings on the exterior back of the case

Original British WWI Lewis Aircraft Gun Modified for WWII Home Guard with 97 Round Drum Magazine Category_Flintlock Pistols The muzzle end of theOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Lewis gun has the distinction of being the first machine gun fired from an aeroplane; on 7 June 1912 Captain Charles Chandler of the US Army fired a prototype Lewis gun from the foot bar of a Wright Model B Flyer. By the time WW2 rolled around 20 years later aircraft technology had left these weapons in the dust, so it was decided to re issue them to the British Home Guard (Dad's Army) to meet the expected NSDAP