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Weapons #5: Browning Automatic Rifle

Handbook of the Browning Automatic Rifle, Model 1918 (Air Cooled) (War Department Document No. 845)
Technical manual on the B.A.R. published in 1918 containing 40 pages and 9 plates, including a large foldout diagram of the gun.

Automatic Rifle (Browning), Model of 1918, Service Handbook (War Department Document No. 845)
A later—and greatly expanded—edition of the B.A.R. technical manual. This edition, published in 1921, contains 89 pages and is abundantly illustrated with photographs and drawings.

Handbook of the Browning Machine Rifle, Model of 1918 (Air Cooled) (Ordnance Department Document No. 1934)
Technical manual containing 48 pages and 9 plates, including a foldout cross section of the B.A.R..

Hand Book of the Colt Automatic Machine Gun—Model of 1919 (Browning Patent), Colt Automatic Machine Rifle—Model 1919 (Browning Patent), Colt Aircraft Machine Gun—Model 1919 (Browning Patent)
A booklet produced by the Colt Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company ca. 1920 showing the three main automatic weapons that it produced for the U.S. Army. 52 pages illustrated with photographs and drawings, including a large foldout diagram of each gun.

Combined Infantry and Cavalry Drill Regulations for Automatic Machine Rifle, Caliber .30, Model of 1909 (War Department Document No. 488)
Originally designed for the Automatic Machine Rifle, Model of 1909 (Bénét-Mercié), this manual was also used for the Browning Automatic Rifle in the absence of a specific manual. First printed in 1915, this edition corrected to 1917 (includes Change No. 1). 64 pages illustrated with drawings.

“Those Browning Guns”
A short magazine article by Lucian Cary on John Browning and the guns he designed (including the B.A.R.), that was originally published in Collier’s Weekly, pages 18 and 32. Illustrated with 3 photographs.

Price: $30