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Roy E. Rayle's Random Shots. It's about Post WW II military small arms development. I'm only into Chapter 2. In Chapter 1 he talks about the earlier T44 being cobbled together from M20 experimental rifles with filler blocks to accomodate the shorter 7.62mm NATO and how John C. Garand was brought in by Mathewson as a consultant and some of the changes he made to simplify things. Check it out (interlibrary loan to make it affordable).
 
Very fun read. Makes me wish we had more metallurgy in gunsmithing skool. More spell'n too I guez.

Talked about firing pin breakage and solution, development of the M60, the gatling gun (it was a paperclip German who demonstrated it with a Gatling gun from the Colt collection), the M79 bloop gun. Ammunition problems in Africa for the Ninth Air Force and gun jamming issues they let the tech sergeants solve for the Air Force.
 
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