Colonel Lewis’ light machine gun, a pre-WWI design, though snubbed by the Army was well-liked by the Navy and Marines and was still used to one degree or another on a number of U.S. Navy vessels early in WWII. Case in point below:
(Office of Emergency Management Collection. Lot-3474-14. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. LC-USE6-9717)
Original caption, “There goes a $100 war bond. A $100 bond buys 2,000 rounds of steel-jacketed .30 caliber shells for this naval gun. Two-thousand rounds can bring down plenty of Japanese airplanes”
For reference, 2,000 rounds of new Federal 150-grain M2 ball these days goes for about $2300.
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