Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...guns completed and under manufacture: It is expected that the batteries under manufacture, with the exception of the 3.8-inch Howitzer batteries, will be completed within the year. William Crozieb, Brigadier General, Chief of Ordnance. For machine guns, as you know, we had to go to the British Government. They let us have some 240 or 250 of one of the best light guns made, the Lewis gun. These were not what we got for the troops going to the border, i I insert a letter from the Chief of Ordnance as to our machine-gun supply. June 22, 1916. From: The Ordnance Office. To: The Adjutant General of the Army. Subject: Status of machine-gun supply. 1. Fifty-four regiments of the Organized Militia have properly approved machine-gun organizations, and of these 44 are completely equipped, including four guns each, 5 regiments have no equipment, and 5 require the automatic machine rifles with tools, accessories, spare parts, and pack outfits, but have the personal equipment. 2. Ninety-nine complete Infantry regiments and 3 complete Cavalry regiments have been ordered mobilized, so that 58 regiments, which will shortly be In the Federal service, are without machine guns. 3. The records of this department show that there are available at ordnance arsenals, general supply depot No. 1, Schuylkill Arsenal, at the base, Columbus. N. Mex., and the seacoast forts intended for provisional regiments of Coast Artillery, a total of 141 machine guns, of which 69 are Benet and 72 Maxim, model of 1904; deducting 6 which are counted as being on hand at the base, Columbus, N. Mex., leaves 135; of these. 45 are required for the equipment of nine new regiments td be organized under the national-defense act in the Immediate future. This leaves 90 guns, of which 18 are...