Bibliography

Bibliography

Note: Other than the manuals, most of the following documents provide only a passing mention or illustration of the MacGlashan guns, and are useful mainly for indentifying locations of ranges and the context of the use of the guns.

 

Books

Call Number

Bombs Away, The Story of a Bomber Team, John Steinbeck, 1942 , New York, The Viking Press, p. 78. UG633 .S77

Wings for Combat, The Story of the Training of an Air Force, Army Air Forces Training Command, 1943, Brooklyn, N.Y., The Ullman Company, Inc., p. 49 UG633 .A46 1943k

Air Machine Guns, Larry Behling, 2006 TS537.5 .B46 2006

Galan, Jess. 1978. “The BB Approach to World War Deuce Saved Money in Training,” Pp. 54-57.
In: Air Gun Digest.(second edition), Robert Beeman, Jack P. Lewis 256 pp. DBI Books, Northfield, Illinois, January 1977,
ISBN-10: 0695807641, ISBN-13: 9780695807641 TS537.5 .B43

 

Manuals

Mac Glashan Air Machine Gun, Mac Glashan Air Machine Gun Corp., Long Beach, CA., n.d., 41 p.

Type E-3 Aerial Gunnery Trainer, Handbook of Instructions with Parts Catalog, Technical Order 11-1-5, February 20, 1943, 25 p. NASM, LOC PB44227

Aerial Gunnery Trainer, Type E-13, Handbook of Instructions with Parts Catalog, Technical Order AN 11-65-11, February 20, 1944, 23 p. LOC PB44880

Fixed Gunnery Trainer Type E-12, Handbook of Instructions with Parts Catalog, Technical Order AN 28-10-8, April 25, 1944, 175 p. LOC PB 44118

Fighter Gunnery, 1st edition, Army Air Forces Training Command, June 1944, 115 p., p. 61 UG630 .U639

Free Gunnery Instructor’s Training Manual, Training Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, USGPO, Washington D.C., 1943, p. 115, 120-123, Figs. 108-110. VG90 .U63 1943a
Handbook of Description, Armament Training Devices, Technical Order 11-65-12, January 25, 1944, ( E-13, p. 9, E-3, p. 20-21) LOC PB 44881

Source note: NASM = National Air and Space Museum Archives, LOC = Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, PB = document identifying number

 

Miscellaneous

Army Air Forces Synthetic Devices Catalog, Army Air Forces Training Aids Division, 1 Jan 1944, p 4-5, Link Fixed Gunnery Range

Catalog, Synthetic Training Devices, BuAer, Special Devices Division, July 1943, Device 3-A-8

Report on Special Devices Division, Rutherford, John P., Lt USNR, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Cost Inspection Service, Bureau of Aeronautics, 1945, National Archives, Records Group 72, Schedule 3, Device 3-A-8

Sparton in World War II, The Sparks-Withington Company, Jackson, Michigan, n.d., circa 1945

USAAF Type Designation Sheet, Classification Name: Trainer Flexible, Letter: E, Basic Character: Aerial Gunnery

 

Magazine articles

LIFE, July 13, 1942, Vol. 13, No. 2,p. 44, center, photograph of BB machine gun firing line at Las Vegas, Eliot Elisofon

POPULAR SCIENCE, April 1943, Vol. 142, No. 4, “Flying Sharpshooters,” Andrew H. Boone, p. 121, top left, photograph of Navy Model

TIME, April 5, 1943, “Gunners’ Assembly Line”, Mention of BB machine guns at Fort Myers

LIFE, June 28, 1943, Vol. 14, No. 26, p. 42, top, photograph of compressed-air machine gun range at NAGS, Jacksonville, Myron H. Davis

AIR TRAILS Pictorial, Vol. XXI, No. 1, October 1943, p. 46, center, photograph of E-12 Fixed Gunnery Trainer at AAF School of Applied Tactics, Orlando, Harold W. Kulick

MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED, November 1943, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, “How the Navy Trains Aerial Gunners”, Arch Whitehouse, p. 42-44, 154-155

AVIATION, December 1943, Vol. 42, No. 12, “How Gunners Learn to Wing ‘Em”, p.221-225, 304-308, p. 223, photograph of BB Link trainer

SKYWAYS, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1944, “Gunners Can’t Miss”, p. 34-5, photographs by Harold Kulick

GUN SPORT & GUN COLLECTOR, May, 1974, “BB Machine Gun From WWII – The MacGlashan”

SHOTGUN NEWS, November 6, 2006, Vol. 60, No. 30, Air Machine Guns!, Tom Gaylord, p. 26-28.

 

Internet Web Links

One Down, One Dead By Frank Speer, p. 23
http://books.google.com/books?id=b3Tev9dd4CIC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=bb+%22link+trainer%22&source=web&ots=BlVJVEOeip&sig=Au298qK1dlEo0XvV4ofArK-6zTA

Some pictures and comments regarding the MacGlashan machine gun
http://www.jobrelatedstuff.com/lite/topic.html?b=6&f=2&t=211549

BB Machinegun.com Reviews
http://www.geocities.com/bbmachinegun/review11.htm

MacGlashan E-3 at Daisy Museum (SN 10180)
http://users.aristotle.net/~russjohn/daisy.html

MacGlashan guns
http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2006/08/new-book-about-air-machine-guns.html

Two photos of a MacGlashan range, probably at Pensacola
http://liberatorcrew.com/15_Gunnery/11_Training.htm

Interesting forum posts
http://bb.bbboy.net/straferbbmachinegunownersgroup

The Most Collectible Airguns of the Twentieth Century, by Robert D. Beeman
http://www.beemans.net/airguncollecting.htm

 

Videos

The video “The Rear Gunner” has an eight-second clip of a MacGlashan firing line and the moving targets, probably taken at the Las Vegas gunnery school. BA-18, ARP Videos, Inc., North Hollywood, CA.