Original British WWI Lewis Aircraft Gun Modified for WWII Home Guard with 97 Round Drum Magazine French & Indian War and were purchased by GIs

and were purchased by GIs returning home as a memento of their military service in the specific theater of operation

Across the bottom under the saying is an engraved Whaling Harpoon

with the lever cycling the action smoothly and the extractor working exactly as it should

four 20 round stick magazines and cleaning rod

Notable features include

Original British WWI Lewis Aircraft Gun Modified for WWII Home Guard with 97 Round Drum Magazine French & Indian War and were purchased by GIsOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Lewis gun has the distinction of being the first machine gun fired from an aeroplane; on 7 June 1912 Captain Charles Chandler of the US Army fired a prototype Lewis gun from the foot bar of a Wright Model B Flyer. By the time WW2 rolled around 20 years later aircraft technology had left these weapons in the dust, so it was decided to re issue them to the British Home Guard (Dad's Army) to meet the expected NSDAP