The Gun

prisoners in, 283, 324

public opinion on, 334

Tet Offensive in, 332, 401

U.S. Army in, 263, 294, 296, 298–307, 316, 320–21, 330, 333–34

weapons stockpiling and, 355

Villar Perosa gun, 139

volley guns, 26–28, 36, 42–43

Vollmer, Heinrich, 162, 166

Voronov, Nikolai N., 205–6

Voyenniye Znaniya, 243

VSS, 385

vz-58, 433n

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Walker, Charles Pyndar Beauchamp, 65

Walt, Lewis W., 319–21

Walther, Carl, 164

War Department, U.S.:

ammunition testing and, 231

Gatling gun production and, 30

on tactical uses of machine guns, 93, 118

see also Defense Department, U.S.

Warren Commission, 285

Warsaw Pact, 18, 214–17, 237–38, 342–44

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 215, 217, 242, 249, 340, 342, 344, 346, 358–59, 361, 386

collapse of, 368

Hungary’s attempt to withdraw from, 237

and Soviet invasion of Hungary, 224, 238

weapons pilfering in, 366–68

weapons standardization in, 214–15, 249

Washington Daily News, 307–8

Washington Post, 92, 323, 327–28, 442n

Watson, Peter H., 30

WDMET (Wound Data and Munitions Effectiveness Team), 265n

weapons:

contests for designs of, 4, 144–48, 150–54, 158–61, 188–89, 191–92, 195n, 197, 200, 205, 207, 345

pilfering and illegal transfers of, 340, 366–71, 411

private dealing of, 86, 354–56, 358, 363, 369

profiteering and, 32–33

standardization of, 32–33, 203–4, 214–15, 249, 255–57, 275, 296, 364–65, 408, 419n, 435–36n, 444n

stockpiling of, 5, 9, 12–13, 340–44, 349, 354–58, 366–68, 387, 398–99, 410–11

Welles, Edgar, 51, 53, 57

West Germany, see Germany, Federal Republic of

Westmoreland, William C., 294–96, 298–99, 306, 308

whale hunting, 12

Wheeler, Earle, 292–95

on AK-47, 290, 294–95, 308

automatic rifle testing and, 283–84, 288, 292–93

Whirlwind, Operation, 238

“White Man’s Burden, The” (Kipling), 104

Wilkinson, Captain, 62

William, Archduke, 83

William II, Emperor of Germany, 109, 117–18

Maxim gun demonstrated for, 84, 90, 112

special machine-gun units and, 117

World War I and, 118

Williston, Edward B., 84

Winchester, Winchester rifles, 75, 91–92, 293, 438n

Winter War, 166

Winton, Sir Francis de, 84–85

Wolseley, Lord Garnet J.:

Ashanti War, 47–48, 78

Maxim’s relationship with, 105

Woodard, Charles, 324, 441n

World War I, 55, 107, 118–40, 161, 163–65

Armistice in, 137

automatic rifles in, 138–40, 163, 167, 267

battle of Tanga in, 119–21, 426n

Battle of the Somme in, 131–35, 137, 164–65

casualties in, 45, 118–21, 123–30, 132–37, 251

Germany in, 118–20, 123, 127–36, 138–40, 233, 246, 426n

human wave attacks in, 123, 126–29, 133–34, 137

machine guns and, 45, 84, 90, 119–22, 124, 128–31, 133–34, 163, 165, 246, 251–52, 255, 424n, 426n

prisoners in, 129, 134, 246

start of, 118

stockpiles of weapons from, 344

submachine guns in, 228, 233, 236

training for, 123–27

trench systems in, 121–25, 127–29, 131–33, 135, 137–39, 233, 236, 251

Western Front in, 119, 121–23, 131–35, 138–39, 236

World War II, 151–53, 161, 246, 264, 269–70, 280–81, 332, 334, 342–44, 365, 405

automatic rifles in, 155, 163–66, 253–54, 280, 295

casualties in, 157, 179–80, 185, 254–55, 287

German invasion of Soviet Union in, 4, 146, 155–57, 159, 164–65, 168–69, 176–80, 182, 185, 199, 209, 238, 343, 358

Kalashnikov in, 144, 146–47, 149, 151, 176–78, 180, 183, 185, 209, 224, 226

M1s in, 199, 253, 295

prisoners in, 1, 152

Soviet Union and, 4, 143–44, 146, 153, 155–59, 164–66, 168–69, 174–83, 185, 199, 202, 209, 212, 214, 221, 224, 238, 280, 343, 358, 436n

stockpiling weapons from, 344, 354–56

submachine guns in, 168–69, 179–80, 182, 185

Winter War and, 166

Wound Data and Munitions Effectiveness Team (WDMET), 265n

Wyman, Willard G., 276, 438n

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