page_title: Lewis gun
section_title: Aircraft use
hierarchical_section_title: Lewis gun / Service / First World War / Aircraft use
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Navy Motor Torpedo Boats on patrol, 1940. MTB's in line ahead, showing crew of the lead MTB.
context_page_description: The Lewis gun is a First World War–era light machine gun.
context_section_description: The Lewis was the first machine gun fired from an airplane. On 7 June 1912, Captain Charles Chandler of the US Army fired a  Lewis gun from the foot-bar of a Wright Model B Flyer.
caption: A Royal Navy Motor Torpedo Boat with dual twin Lewis guns, 1940.
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