Lewis+Gun

= Lewis Gun = Lewis gun was produced by the United States and United Kingdom, the Lewis gun was a world war 1 era light machine gun used of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War. Lewis gun was last used in 1953.

= History = The Lewis gun was invented by US Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911, based on initial work by Samuel Maclean. But the gun was not accepted in the US, so then Isaac Newton Lewis most likely because of political differences between Lewis and General William Crozier, the Chief of the Ordnance Department. Lewis becomes frustrated with trying to persuade the US Army to adopt his design, but still the US rejected the design and then Mr. Lewis retired from the army. He left the United States in 1913 and headed to Belgium shortly he went to the UK and he establish a // Armies Automatique Lewis // company in Liege to Prudence the gun, after working closely with the Birmingham Small Arms company (BSA) in an effort to overcome some of the production difficulties of the weapon, and in 1913 BSA purchased a license to manufacture for the Lewis Machine Gun, which resulted that Mr. Lewis receiving significant royalty payments and becoming very wealthy.

Service
Lewis gun served many battles Some key battles that Lewis gun is use are the following: Even though that Lewis gun was mostly used in world war one, in world war 1 more then 50,000 Lewis gun was produced, later one in world war 2 most of the Lewis gun replaced by the Vickers K, this gun can fire twice as fast as the Lewis gun. But this gun use still use as an anti air craft gun in World War 2.it was credited by the British for bringing down more low-flying enemy aircraft than any other AA weapon. The U.S used the Lewis gun on armed merchant cruisers, small auxiliary ships, landing craft and submarines. The US Coast Guard also used the Lewis on their vessels,
 * - World War I
 * -Banana Wars
 * -Irish War of Independence
 * -Irish Civil War
 * -World War II
 * -Korean War
 * -Arab-Israeli War


 * Design **

=** Significance in battle **= The reason why so many countries use the Lewis Gun is because that this gun can be used as an anti-aircraft gun and against small ships. It was a quick machine gun at that time too, so it was like a very advanced and powerful gun to their users.