• View of Davis recoilless gun from the front of the barrel. The gun consists of a rifled steel tube barrel with hand grip and tiggers for firing both main round and Lewis gun, shoulder rest, and U-shaped support for post mount. Smaller diameter tube underneath serves as pivot to open barrel to load round. Chamber is locked/unlocked with handle on rotating rear tube. Lewis gun mounted on post mount above barrel, used as an aid to aiming by firing Lewis and observing bullet path.

Created:

July 28, 2022

Photographer

Eric Long

ID#:

NASM2022-06601

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Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

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