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*''[[Hell's Angels]]'' (1930)
*''[[Hell's Angels]]'' (1930)
*Japanese soldiers in ''[[Guadalcanal Diary]]'' (1944)
*Japanese soldiers in ''[[Guadalcanal Diary]]'' (1944)
*[[Victor McLaglen]] as The Sergeant and [[Wallace Ford]] as Morelli in ''[[Lost Patrol, The|The Lost Patrol]]'' (1934)


===Television===
===Television===

Revision as of 08:56, 15 May 2012

The Lewis light machine gun and variants appear in the following films, television series, and anime used by the following actors:

Specifications

  • Type: Light Machine Gun
  • In service: 1914-1953
  • Designers: Samuel McClean, Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, Birmingham Small Arms Co.
  • Designed: 1911
  • Produced: 1913-1942
  • Manufacturers: Birmingham Small Arms Co., Savage Arms Co.
  • Wars: World War I, World War II, Korean War, Arab-Israeli War
  • Weight: 28 pounds (13 kg)
  • Length: 50.5 inches (1,280 mm)
  • Barrel length: 26.5 inches (670 mm)
  • Width: 4.5 inches (110 mm)
  • Cartridge: .303 British/.30-06 Springfield
  • Action: Gas-operated
  • Rate of fire: 500–600 rounds/min
  • Muzzle velocity: 2440 ft/s
  • Effective range: 880 yards (800 m)
  • Maximum range: 3,500 yards (3,200 m)
  • Feed system: 47- or 97-round drum magazine
  • Sights: Blade and Tangent Leaf

Infantry

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Lewis Gun - .303 British

Film

Animation

Television

Video Games

Aircraft Mounted

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Aircraft mounted Lewis Gun - .303 British

Film

Television

  • Used by U.S. WWI soldiers mounted on planes in Mail Call
  • Used by WWII Officers on Jeep(shown in footage) in Weaponology (2008) in SAS

Anime