id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 48428 United States. War Department America's Munitions 1917-1918 .txt text/plain 274569 16699 71 American troops fought with French and British machine guns war brought the machine gun into its own, requiring in the United the manufacture of artillery ammunition, big guns, rifles, machine PRODUCTION OF RIFLES, MACHINE GUNS, AND AMMUNITION, FRANCE AND In completed artillery units the American rate of production at the end normal rate the special steels required for gun manufacture. United States, constructed a completely new factory to turn out 25 gun Guns ordered manufactured in United States, October, 1917 1,200 Austrian Army had adopted an excellent heavy type machine gun known as manufactured a large number of Colt machine guns of the old lever type Our first troops in France needed machine guns for use on the lines. the heavy machine-gun equipment of these troops was American built, War Department met from the machine-gun manufacturers. In developing a rifle grenade for American manufacture our engineers ./cache/48428.txt ./txt/48428.txt