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JOHNSON, MELVIN MAYNARD Rifles and Machine Guns of the World's Armies
Washington Infantry Journal Press 1944 Soft Cover Very Good
Illustrated by Elmer H. Pratt. 405 pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, very good. Fighting Forces Edition. 1st printing. From the website of Johnston Automatics: ""Commissioned into the Marine Corps Reserve in 1933 as a Second Lieutenant. During this time he attended various Marine Corps firearms schools and courses including those held in Quantico, Virginia. He was posted as the Corps' observer at the Springfield Armory, reporting on the Garand and Pederson trials being held there. Not being impressed by either design he designed a retarded blowback operated rifle in 1935. Johnson held four U. S. Patents on various design features used in his rifle. He set up the Johnson Automatics Trust in Brookline, Mass. , with the aid of his father, then moving to the India Building , located at 84 State Street in Boston. This building is located opposite the Boston Stock Exchange. The Trust, later Johnson Automatics Inc. Found production facilities first at the Taft Peirce plant and then in Cranston, both situated in Rhode Island. The model '41 rifles were manufactured under the "Cranston Arms Company Inc. " name, which was a sub-division of Universal Windings, at whose factory they were made in Cranston. Johnson also designed the Johnson Light Machine Gun which was issued to US Forces in larger numbers than his rifle, again to specialized army and marine units. Both models of which (the 1941 and the 1944) saw action in all theatres of operation in WW2." From the introduction: "This book is intended primarily as an introductory study of modern military small arms to aid those who study, use or maintain weapons in service. "
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30.00 USD
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