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For nearly fifty years the hard-hitting, mobile Browning Automatic
Rifle, or BAR, served in US infantry units as a light squad
automatic "base of fire" weapon, providing quick bursts of
concentrated fire. Designed in World War One, it didn't reach the
front until September 1918. In the interwar years US forces used
the BAR across the world, from China to Nicaragua. It also became a
favorite of notorious gangsters like Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker, who prized its ability to punch through police armored
cars. At the outset of World War II the US armed forces decided to
adapt the BAR for a light machine gun role. The BAR was not without
its flaws; it was heavy and difficult to dismantle and reassemble,
and it didn't cope well with sustained fire. Nevertheless, the BAR
saw action in every major theater of World War II and went on to be
used in Korea and in the opening stages of the Vietnam War.
Featuring arresting first-hand accounts, specially drawn full-color
artwork and close-up photographs, many in color, this lively study
offers a vivid portrait of this powerful, long-lived and innovative
weapon that saw service with US and other forces across the world
for much of the 20th century.
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