Lewis Gun

== Specifications ==
(1913 - 1942)
* Type: Machine Gun
* Caliber: .303 British, .30-06 Springfield, 7.92x57mm Mauser
* Feed System: 47- or 97-round pan magazine
* Fire Modes: Full-Auto (500-600 RPM)
==Infantry==
thumb|right|500px|Lewis Gun - .303 British
The Lewis Gun is a light machine gun initially designed by US Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, but primarily produced in the United Kingdom. Colonel Lewis designed the machine gun in 1911, but it was not considered for use by the US military due to disagreements between Lewis and General William Crozier, Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army at the time. Lewis moved to Europe in 1913, determined to privately produce the guns, and in 1914 the Birmingham Small Arms Company began producing the Lewis Gun under license in Britain. 
The Lewis Gun is gas-operated, with its most distinct features being its 47 or 97-round pan magazine, and large cooling jacket. The cooling jacket works by having the muzzle blast from firing a shot forced into the jacket to cool the barrel. 
The Lewis Gun was used extensively by Britain throughout World War I, where it was valued for its lower weight and greater portability compared to other contemporary machine guns. While officially replaced by the Bren Gun and Vickers K by the time of World War II, the Lewis Gun was still used extensively, with large stocks in storage being reissued following the British Expeditionary Force leaving behind much of its equipment following the Dunkirk Evacuation. Large amounts were also issued to the Home Guard, where it was discovered that the gun works just fine without the heavy cooling jacket- much to the chagrin of World War I veterans who carried one during the war. The Lewis Gun was officially withdrawn from service in 1946, with over 152,000 produced in total. 
 
Infantry Lewis Guns are fitted with wooden stocks. Most infantry Lewis Guns feature the original cooling jacket, but some lack the cooling jacket; these are most commonly associated with the British Home Guard, and are often aircraft Lewis Guns converted for ground usage.
===Film===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Notation 	Date
Hearts of the World 	 	British soldiers 	 	1918
The Heart of Humanity 	Robert Anderson 	Paul Patricia 	 	1918
Shoulder Arms 	Charlie Chaplin 	Charlie 	Supposedly a mockup 	1918
Shoulder Arms 	 	German soldiers 	Supposedly a mockup 	1918
Arsenal 	 	Bolsheviks 	 	1929
Journey's End 	 	British soldiers 	with 97-round magazines 	1930
The Other Side 	 	British soldiers 	Savage M1917 	1931
Shock Troop 	 	British soldiers 	 	1934
Alamases's Gorge (Ushchelye Alamasov) 	Ir. Kan 	Enemy commander 	Savage M1917 	1937
Alamases's Gorge (Ushchelye Alamasov) 	 	Enemy soldiers 	Standard British and Savage M1917 	1937
Shchors 	Evgeniy Samoylov 	Nikolay Shchors 	Savage M1917 	1939
Shchors 	 	Red soldiers 	Savage M1917 	1939
Wake Island 	 	U.S. soldiers 	 	1942
Immortal Sergeant 	Henry Fonda 	Cpl. Colin Spence 	 	1943
Immortal Sergeant 	Melville Cooper 	Pvt. Pilcher 	 	1943
Immortal Sergeant 	Allyn Joslyn 	Pvt. Cassidy 	 	1943
Immortal Sergeant 	 	British troops 	 	1943
For Whom the Bell Tolls 	Gary Cooper 	Robert Jordan 	 	1943
Passage to Marseille 	Humphrey Bogart 	Jean Matrac 	 	1944
The Fighting Seabees 	 	Japanese soldiers 	without the cooling shroud 	1944
The Desert Rats 	 	Australian soldiers 	 	1953
Paths of Glory 	 	French soldier 	 	1957
Dunkirk 	 	British soldiers 	 	1958
Operation Amsterdam 	 	Dutch soldiers 	 	1959
Pork Chop Hill 	 	Chinese soldiers 	Mocked up as Degtyaryov DP-28 	1959
Cruelty (Zhestokost) 	Vyacheslav Bogachyov 	Ugolovny Rozysk operative 	 	1959
Virgin Soil Upturned (Podnyataya tselina) 	Pyotr Glebov 	Aleksandr Polovtsev 	 	1960
Virgin Soil Upturned (Podnyataya tselina) 	Igor Dmitriev 	Vaclav Lyatyevski 	 	1960
633 Squadron 	 	RAF sentry 	On the dual AA mount 	1964
The Professionals 	Lee Marvin 	Rico 	 	1966
The Professionals 	 	Mexican soldiers 	 	1966
The Sand Pebbles 	Gavin MacLeod 	Seaman Crosley 	 	1966
The Sand Pebbles 	Steve McQueen 	Jake Holmanr 	 	1966
The Sand Pebbles 	Richard Crenna 	Capt. Collins 	 	1966
The Sand Pebbles 	Joe Turkel 	Seaman Bronson 	 	1966
Sergey Lazo 	 	Imperial Japanese Army soldiers	Savage M1917 	1968
Two Comrades Were Serving (Sluzhili dva tovarishcha) 	Oleg Yankovskiy 	Andrei Nekrasov 	 	1968
The Intervention (Interventsiya) 	 	 	Seen in French trenches 	1969
White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) 	Anatoly Kuznetsov 	Fyodor Sukhov 	 	1970
You Can't Win 'Em All 	Tony Bonner 	Gunner Reese 	 	1970
Dillinger 	 	U.S. Soldier 	 	1973
And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...) 	 	Imperial Japanese Army Soldiers	with the tripod of some other machine gun	1974
Peasant Son (Krestyanskiy syn) 	Georgiy Burkov 	Andrey Petrakov 	 	1975
Peasant Son (Krestyanskiy syn) 	Sergey Kurakin 	Kostya Baykov 	 	1975
Peasant Son (Krestyanskiy syn) 	 	A bandit 	 	1975
Soldier of Orange 	 	 	Dual mounted on fast patrol boat 	1977
March or Die 	Terence Hill 	Marco Segrain 	 	1977
March or Die 	 	French Foreign Legionnaires 	 	1977
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 	 	Imperial Sandtroopers 	As the "T-21 Blaster Rifle" 	1977
The End of the Emperor of the Taiga (Konets imperatora taygi)	German Kachin 	Pavel Nikitin 	 	1978
The End of the Emperor of the Taiga (Konets imperatora taygi)	Nartai Begalin 	Akhmai 	 	1978
The Sixth (Shestoy) 	Yevgeni Bakalov 	Arystarch 	 	1981
Keep Your Eyes Open! (Smotri v oba!) 	Fyodor Sukhov 	Aleksey Komanov 	 	1981
Do Not Set Traps for Leshiy... (Ne stavte Leshemu kapkany...)	Sultan Dikambayev 	A shaggy bandit 	 	1981
Biggles: Adventures in Time 	Alex Hyde-White 	Jim Ferguson 	 	1986
The Lighthorsemen 	 	Australian soldier 	 	1987
The Art of Living in Odessa (Iskusstvo zhit v Odesse) 	 	 	Seen in a crate 	1989
Michael Collins 	Ian Hart 	Joe O'Reilly 	 	1996
Michael Collins 	 	Black And Tans 	 	1996
Richard III 	Ian McKellen 	Richard of Gloucester 	 	1996
Legionnaire 	Jean Claude Van Damme 	 	 	1998
The Trench 	 	British soldiers 	 	1999
The Wind That Shakes the Barley 	 	IRA soldiers 	 	2006
Passchendaele 	Justin Michael Carriere	Pte Godin 	 	2009
Passchendaele 	 	Canadian soldiers 	 	2009
Kokoda 	 	Australian soldiers 	 	2010
Sucker Punch 	Emily Browning 	Babydoll 	 	2011
War Horse 	 	British troops 	 	2011
Gangster Squad 	 	Cohen's men 	 	2013
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 	 	Imperial Stormtroopers 	"T-21 Blaster Rifle" 	2016
Wonder Woman 	Zack Snyder 	British soldier 	 	2017
Wonder Woman 	 	British Army 	 	2017
Journey's End 	Asa Butterfield 	Second Lieutenant Raleigh 	man-portable, trench mounted 	2018
Journey's End 	 	British soldiers 	man-portable, trench mounted 	2018
Deadpool 2 	 	 	 	2018
A War Within 	 	 	Mounted on Mark IV tank Replica 	2018
Tolkien 	 	British soldiers 	 	2019
1917 	 	British soldiers 	 	2019
The King's Man 	Matthew Goode 	The Shepard 	 	2021
===Television===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Air Date
Dad's Army 	John Laurie 	Private James Frazer 	 	1968-1977
The Strogovs (Strogovy) 	 	 	Seen among Shtychkov's guns, Ep.7 	1976
The Strogovs (Strogovy) 	 	A White soldier 	Ep.7 	1976
Anzacs 	 	Australian troops 	 	1985
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles	 	 	Documentary footage; mounted on Mk V Female tank	1990
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 	Lynsey Baxter 	Margarete Trappe 	"Phantom Train of Doom" 	1993
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 	Sean Patrick Flanery	Indiana Jones 	Ep.: Phantom Train of Doom 	1993
The Somme 	 	British soldier 	 	2005
The Somme – From Defeat to Victory 	 	British soldier 	 	2006
Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey 	 	Shown in picture of soldiers in WWI	Season 1, Ep.: Machine Guns 	2009
Downton Abbey 	 	British soldier 	S2E05 	2011
The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya) 	 	 	Seen in barraks 	2012
Peaky Blinders 	Ian Peck 	Curly 	with stock and bipod removed 	2013
Peaky Blinders 	Sam Neill 	Inspector Chester Campbell 	with stock and bipod removed 	2013
Peaky Blinders 	Iddo Goldberg 	Freddie 	 	2013
Peaky Blinders 	Samuel Edward-Cook 	Danny 	 	2013
The Son - Season 1 	J. Quinton Johnson 	Neptune 	 	2017
SAS Rogue Heroes - Season 1 	 	British soldier 	Ep. 1 	2022
===Video Games===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Mods 	Notation 	Release Date
Fallout Tactics 	"Lewis MKII" 	 	 	2001
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault 	 	 	Dual-mounted 	2004
Forgotten Hope 2 	 	 	Portable, mounted on Chevy 30WCT jeep and LCA (Landing Craft, Assault) 	2005
Cross Fire 	"Lewis Gun" 	 	 	2007
Battlefield Heroes 	 	 	 	2009
The Great War 1918 	 	 	 	2013
Far East War 	"Lewis Light Machine Gun" 	 	 	2013
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly 	Lewis Machine Gun 	Light Ground Mount support 	 	2014
Battlefield Hardline 	"Syndicate Gun" 	Russian PK-A sight and AN/PEQ-15 IR Designator	Betrayal DLC 	2015
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 	"Lewis" 	 	 	2015
Verdun 	"Machine Gun Model 1914 Lewis"	 	 	2015
Star Wars Battlefront 	"T-21", "T-21B" 	 	Based on prop weapon from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope; also features a new custom variant	2015
Assassin's Creed Syndicate 	 	 	Unusable 	2015
Day of Infamy 	Lewis Gun 	 	 	2016
Battlefield 1 	Lewis Gun 	 	Has 3 Variants 	2016
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades	Lewis Gun 	 	 	2016
Call of Duty: WWII 	Lewis 	 	Aircraft model converted for ground usage 	2017
Screaming Steel: 1914-1918 	Lewis Gun 	 	 	2018
Squad 44: Letters From The Front 	 	 	Introduced in 2022 Mercury update 	2018
Battlefield V 	Lewis Gun 	 	Homeguard configuration by default 	2018
Enlisted 	"Lewis gun" 	 	 	2021
Beyond The Wire 	Lewis Gun 	 	 	2022
The Finals 	Lewis Gun 	replacement rear sight 	 	2023
===Anime===
Title 	Characters	Notation 	Date
Porco Rosso 	A pirate 	 	1992
Girls und Panzer 	Shark Team	Mounted on British Mark IV tank	2012
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 1	Shark Team	Mounted on British Mark IV tank	2017
Girls und Panzer das Finale: Part 2	Shark Team	Mounted on British Mark IV tank	2019
===Animation===
Title 	Characters 	Notation 	Date
Atlantis: The Lost Empire	Lyle Rourke 	 	2001
Atlantis: The Lost Empire	Whitmore Expedition soldiers	mounted on Whitmore Wing aircraft	2001
==Aircraft Mounted==
The Lewis Gun also also extensively used on British and French aircraft during World War I, favored due to its lower weight than other machine guns, air cooling, and self-contained magazines as opposed to belts. An infantry Lewis Gun was also the first machine gun fired from an airplane, with Captain Charles Chandler of the US Army firing one while aboard a Wright Flyer in 1912. 
===Film===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Notation 	Date
Wings 	 	WWI American Cadet Airmen	 	1927
Hell's Angels 	 	 	Mounted on the plane 	1930
King Kong 	 	US pilots 	 	1933
The Lost Patrol 	Victor McLaglen 	The Sergeant 	 	1934
The Lost Patrol 	Wallace Ford 	Morelli 	 	1934
Alamases's Gorge (Ushchelye Alamasov) 	 	 	Twin Lewis Model 1924, mounted on soviet R-5 combat plane 	1937
Fighting Film Collection No. 4 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 4)	 	Royal Navy personnel 	Converted for AA serivce; documentary footage 	1941
For Whom the Bell Tolls 	 	 	acting as coaxial machine gun 	1943
Guadalcanal Diary 	 	Japanese soldiers 	 	1944
The Fighting Seabees 	 	US Navy 	mounted on the Higgins boat 	1944
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 	 	 	mounted on Air Force plane 	1956
The Blue Max 	 	British pilots 	 	1966
Aces High 	Malcolm McDowell 	Maj. John Gresham 	 	1976
The People That Time Forgot 	Shane Rimmer 	Hogan 	 	1977
The Ace of Aces (L'As des as) 	Jean-Paul Belmondo 	Jo Cavalier 	Mounted on S.E.5, with 97-round drum, visually modified as Vickers 	1982
The Ace of Aces (L'As des as) 	Frank Hoffmann 	Gunther von Beckman 	Mounted on Fokker Dr.I, with 97-round drum, visually modified as Parabellum MG14	1982
High Road To China 	Tom Selleck 	Patrick O'Malley 	 	1983
High Road To China 	Jack Weston 	Struts 	 	1983
Sahara 	Ronald Lacey 	Beg 	 	1983
Sahara 	 	Tuareg 	 	1983
Sky Bandits 	Nicholas Lyndhurst 	Chalky 	 	1986
Biggles: Adventures in Time 	Alex Hyde-White 	Jim Ferguson 	 	1986
The Mummy 	Brendan Fraser 	Rick O'Connell 	 	1999
The Mummy 	Oded Fehr 	Ardeth Bey 	 	1999
The Aviator 	 	 	 	2004
King Kong 	 	U.S. Army biplane crews 	 	2005
Flyboys 	Martin Henderson 	Reed Cassidy 	 	2006
Flyboys 	 	British pilots 	 	2006
The 39 Steps 	 	 	mounted on Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 	2008
The Red Baron 	Matthias Schweighöfer	Manfred von Richthofen 	 	2008
The Red Baron 	 	British pilots 	 	2008
===Television===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Air Date
Father Brown 	 	 	Seen on a WWI photo of Sopwith Camel 2F.1 fighter plane; "The Arrow of Heaven" (Ep.12) 	1974
Wings BBC TV Series	Tim Woodward 	2nd Lt. Alan Farmer 	S02E08 "Officers and gentlemen" S02E01 "Forward Action" S01E08 "The Hunters" Mounted on plane	1977-1978
Wings BBC TV Series	Nicholas Jones 	Capt. Owen Triggers 	S02E11 "Mutiny" Mounted on plane 	1977-1978
Wings BBC TV Series	Michael Cochrane	Lt. Charles Gaylion 	Mounted on plane 	1977-1978
Wings BBC TV Series	 	British WW1 RFC fighter pilots	Mounted on planes 	1977-1978
Mail Call 	 	U.S. WWI soldiers 	Mounted on planes 	2002-2009
===Anime===
Title 	Characters 	Notation 	Date
Porco Rosso 	 	Mounted on a pirate plane 	1992
Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door	 	Mounted on a Fairey Swordfish aircraft	2001
Mayoi Neko Overrun! 	 	 	2010
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian 	Pilot 	Mounted on aircraft 	2011
Saga of Tanya the Evil 	Alliance airmen	mounted on Blériot 127 bombers 	2017
===Video Games===
Game Title 	Appears as	Mods	Notation 	Release Date
Forgotten Hope 	 	 	 	2003
Forgotten Hope 2	 	 	 	2007
Enlisted 	 	 	Mounted on S.M.79 series 1 aircraft	2021
=Type 92 light machine gun=
thumb|right|500px|Type 92 with 97-round magazine - 7.7x56mmR
The Type 92 is a Japanese derivative of the Lewis Gun and was equipped as a defensive weapon on Imperial Japanese Navy planes during the early parts of World War II. In combat however, the Type 92 was considered inadequate compared to the Type 1 and Type 2 machine guns and the Type 99 cannon. As with the Navy's Type 97 machine gun and the previously mentioned Type 1, the Type 92 remained chambered for (Japanese-produced varieties of) .303 British (7.7x56mmR). The most distinctive visual difference compared to the original Lewis Gun is the enlarged trigger guard.
===Film===
Title 	Actor	Character 	Notation 	Date
Pearl Harbor	 	Japanese Pilots	mounted on D3A "Val" dive bombers and B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers	2001
===Video Games===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Notation 	Release Date
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun 	"Type 92 7.7mm Machine Gun" 	mounted on elephant's saddle and Aichi D3A "Val" dive bombers	2003
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault	"Type 92 portable machinegun"	with forced-air cooling jacket 	2004
Call of Duty: WWII 	"Chatter Box" 	cosmetic weapon variant of the Lewis Gun 	2017
World of Warships: Legends 	 	Added in February 2021 update 	2019
Enlisted 	"7.7 mm Type 92 machine gun" 	Mounted on some Japanese aircraft 	2021
===Anime===
Title 	Character 	Note 	Air Date
Momotaro: Sacred Sailors 	Imperial Japanese army soldier	 	1945
Strike Witches 	 	Mounted on Akagi-class carrier 	2008
Strike Witches 2 	 	Mounted on F1M floatplane and Akagi-class carrier 	2010
Strike Witches: The Movie 	 	Mounted on F1M floatplane and Akagi-class carrier 	2012
The Wind Rises 	 	mounted on Mitsubishi G3M bombers 	2013
Drifters 	 	mounted on Hiryu-based fighter/bomber aircraft 	2016
Sirius the Jaeger 	 	Ep. 07; mounted in armoured car 	2018
The Magnificent Kotobuki 	Torihei 	mounted on "D4Y2 Suisei", "Rahama's Longest Day" (E03) 	2019
The Magnificent Kotobuki 	Kate 	mounted on "D4Y2 Suisei", "Blood for a Nazarin Pound" (E07)	2019
The Magnificent Kotobuki 	Allen 	mounted on "Type 95", "The Vagabond Leader" (E09) 	2019
The Magnificent Kotobuki 	Anesan 	mounted on "D4Y2 Suisei", "Duel in Ikesuka" (E11) 	2019
Strike Witches: Road to Berlin	 	Mounted on Akagi-class carrier 	2020
=Lewis Assault Phase Rifle=
The Lewis Assault Phase Rifle was an extremely rare prototype based on the Lewis Gun action, but modified to be more portable and able to be fired from the shoulder. This rifle was a competitor of the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle that never went into production.
===Video Games===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Notation 	Release Date
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades	"Lewis Assault Phase Rifle"	MK2 and MK3 variants	2016
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