MacDonald’s gunship idea was passed over, but he resurrected it in 1961 when, as a lieutenant colonel, he advocated transverse firing of rockets and machine guns by liaison aircraft. MacDonald of the 95th Coast Artillery proposed fitting a Piper Cub with a side-firing machine gun for anti-submarine operations. 22 was intended for use in France’s colonial possessions, one of which, ironically enough, would become the venue for US gunships-Indochina. 12 75 mm cannon in a four-engine Bordelaise A.B. In 1932, French military designers installed a fixed side-firing Schneider P.D. The United States did not have a monopoly on the idea.
30-caliber Lewis machine gun on the wing and flew “pylon turns” to keep the gun on target, thus demonstrating the very essence of the concept almost 40 years before it appeared on the battlefield. Fred Nelson experimented with a de Havilland DH-4 at Brooks Field, Texas. Putting a fixed side-firing weapon on an aircraft was first proposed in 1926, when 1st Lt.
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