MacGlashan military manuals

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The following military manuals deal with the MacGlashan guns. The first two deal with the flexible and fixed guns, respectively. The third deals with the fixed gunnery trainer (Link type) that carried the E-13 gun. I have indicated the sources after each item. The Library of Congress Photoduplication Service (see their web page) is very expensive — $38 minimum per item. ($14 for finding, .50 a page for copying, with a $12 minimum, and $12 for shipping).
Type E-3 Aerial Gunnery Trainer, Handbook of Instructions with Parts Catalog, Technical Order 11-1-5, February 20, 1943, 23 p. You can get a copy from the National Air and Space Museum archives for $11.50. They will ask you to sign an agreement that you will not copy or circulate it.
You can get an unrestricted copy from the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service as PB 44227.
Aerial Gunnery Trainer, Type E-13, Handbook of Instructions with Parts Catalog, Technical Order AN 11-65-11, February 20, 1944, 23 p.
This you can get from the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service as PB 44880
Fixed Gunnery Trainer Type E-12, Handbook of Instructions with Parts Catalog, Technical Order AN 28-10-8, April 25, 1944, 175 p.
Available from the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service as PB 44118.
If you are just interested in the gun, you should request only the following pages:
Cover, III, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 23, 28, 29, 32, 41, 42, 43, 51, 52, 53, 67, 69, 88, 103, and 104 .
Free Gunnery Instructor’s Training Manual, Training Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, USGPO, Washington D.C., 1943, available on Interlibrary loan from the Library of Congress. The call number is VG90 .U63 1943a
(See http://liberatorcrew.com/15_Gunnery/11_Training.htm)
Handbook of Description, Armament Training Devices, Technical Order 11-65-12, January 25, 1944, ( E-13, p. 9, E-3, p. 20-21) This you can get from the Library of Congress Photo duplication Service as PB 44881, but since so few pages deal with the guns, it’s not worth the price.

Specific ordering instructions:
National Air and Space Museum Archives
Go to http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/arch/emailform.cfm
Fill in the inquiry form regarding purchasing a copy of AAF
Technical Order 11-1-5, Type E-3 Aerial Gunnery Trainer.
They will mail you a quote and an order form.
Mail it back with your check to Smithsonian Institution,P.O. Box 37012, National Air and Space Museum,
Rm.3100, MRC 322, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
and you will in due course get a copy of the manual

Library of Congress Photo duplication Service
Go to http://www.loc.gov/preserv/pds/copy.html
Determine the cost of your order
Go to http://www.loc.gov/preserv/pds/pdsorder.pdf
Fill out the form for whatever document(s) you want
PB44227: Handbook of Instructions with Parts Catalog, Type E-3 Aerial Gunnery Trainer, (25 pages), AAF TO 11-1-5
PB 44880: Handbook of Instructions, with Parts Catalog: Aerial Gunnery Trainer, Type E-13 (21 pages), AAF TO 11-65-11
PB 44118: Handbook of Instructions with Parts Catalog, Fixed Gunnery Trainer, Type E-12 (80 pages), AAF TO 28-10-8.
(See note above regarding specific pages)
In the Special Instructions block put Paper format, in the Technical Reports and Standards Unit of the Science Technology and Business Division
Send order with your check to Library of Congress
Photo duplication Service
101 Independence Ave, S.E.
Washington, DC 20540-4570
and you will eventually (weeks!) get your manual(s)

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