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  • Machine Gun Training Centre. (1918). Machine Gunners’ Pocket Book. Grantham, UK: Machine Gun Training Centre.
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  • Young, F. (2009). Chindits Special Force Burma 1942-44 [online]. [Available online: www.chindits.info].

Bibliography

In addition to the cited titles given above, the following may be of interest for further reading:

  • Bowyer, C. (1979). Guns in the Sky. London, UK: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
  • Bruce, R. (1997). Machine Guns of World War I. London, UK: Windrow & Greene.
  • Carroll, D. (1999). The Home Guard. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing Ltd.
  • Chappell, M. (1989). The British Soldier in the 20th Century – Volume 8: The Vickers Machine Gun. Okehampton, UK: Wessex Military Publishing.
  • Crutchley, C. (1975). Machinegunner 1914-1918. Folkestone, UK: Bailey Brothers & Swinfen Ltd.
  • Fairley, J. (1990). Remember Arnhem. [2nd Ed.]. Glasgow, UK: Peaton Press.
  • Ford, R. (1996). Machine Gunner: Tales of the Grim Reaper. London, UK: Pan Books Ltd.
  • Gunner, C. (1991). Front of the Line. Antrim, Ireland: Greystone Books.
  • Kay, R.L. (1958). 27 (Machine Gun) Battalion. Wellington, New Zealand: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs. [Available Online: http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-27Ba.html]
  • King-Clark, R. (1995). The Battle for Kohima. 1944: The Narrative of the 2nd Battalion The Manchester Regiment. Cheshire, UK: Fleur de Lys Publishing.
  • McBride, H.W. (1935). The Emma Gees. North Carolina, USA: Small Arms Technical Publishing co.
  • Oakes, B. (1980). Muzzle Blast: Six Years of War with the 2/2 Australian Machine Gun Battalion. Australia: Australian Military History Publications.
  • Reinders, P.H. (1995). Chalk 619: Doomed even before it started. Holland: Arnhem Battle Research Group.
  • Tanner, J. [ed.]. (1979a). RAF Museum Series: Volume 8 – RAF Airborne Forces Manual. London, UK: Arms & Armour Press.
  • Williams, A.G. (2000). Rapid Fire. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing.

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