Digital download of crystal clear scan! 428 pages detailing the arms and armament used by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during WWII. Includes British (RAF) and American (USAAF) arms as well.
"These notes have been prepared for the following reasons:
(a) To ensure that the armament training of Armourers, Fitters' Armourers is standardised throughout the training schools.
(b) To put together the information on armament required by an Armourer or Fitters' Armourer which has hitherto been contained in many different text books.
(c) To save trainees having to laboriously write up notes dictated by an instructor.
(d) To raise the standard of training."
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Chapter I - Gunnery
Section 1. Browning Guns
Section 2. Vickers Guns
Section 3. Lewis Guns
Section 4. 20mm Cannon
Section 5. Gun Firing Mechanisms
Section 6. Thompson Gun
Section 7. Small Arms
Section 8. Camera Guns
Section 9. Gun Sights
Section 10. Harmonisation
Section 11. Gun Maintenance
Section 12. Synchronising Gear
Section 13. Ammunition
Section 14. Theory of Air Firing
Section 15. Power Operated Turrets
Chapter II - Bombing
Section 1. Bombs and Bomb Fuzes
Section 2. Bomb Carriers; Automatic Bomb Distributors
Section 3. Bombsights
Section 4. Pyrotechnics
Section 5. Theory of Bombing
Section 6. Analysis of Bombing Errors
Section 7. Bombing Up and Bomb Fuzing
Section 8. Bombing Teacher
Section 9. Camera Obscura
Section 10. Flight Track Recorder
Chapter III - Miscellaneous
Section 1. Organisation and Administration
Section 2. Smoke Curtain Installation
Section 3. Mathematics
Section 4. Explosives
Section 5. Workshop Practice
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