From: Ronald Gillen (gillen@NCONNECT.NET)
Date: Mon Apr 12 1999 - 14:24:28 PDT
Tim Merry wrote: > ...... our carriers > were also fitted with the .5in Browning machine-gun (a belt-fed > job with three sorts of bullets in series - ordinary, > armour-piercing, and incendiary). ........ Tim, I 'worked' on a quad-.50 which was mounted in a small electrically driven turret on wheels and could easily be towed by a jeep. While primarily an AA gun to defend a 40mm battery from low level strafing it could be put to other good uses too. Under sustained fire it could chew a brick wall to small pieces. It was powered by a small gasoline driven DC generator mounted on it and could, in an emergency, run on its truck battery for about 1/2 hour. I don't know why it wasn't put to much wider use. Seated in a half-trach it could be a fearsome weapon, in Korea we had single 40mm Bofers mounted in half-tracks mostly used to clear the hills of Guerrillas. Regards ..... Ron Gillen