Use of Browning M1919A4 .30 Cal in aircraft

[dp_burke]

My googling has failed me thus far

Can anyone think of examples of the use of Browning M1919A4 .30 cal machine guns in either fixed or flexible use on aircraft?

As opposed to the specific AN-M3 .30 cal

There is an example in an Irish museum said to have come from a wartime crashed aircraft. It looks pretty much like a ground based M1919A4, and is marked in that manner but has no pistol or spade grips fitted and has a longer protruding buffer tube at the back with squared edges.

Its the lower MG in this photo on shelf below the TV
https://mycarlow.eu/wp-content/uploa...ryP1030774.jpg

It is supposed to be from one of the Foreign aircraft that crashed/landed here and which I cover on my website www.ww2irishaviation.com but I will have to trawl through the Irish Army reports to try see if that detail was recorded. I am trying to think which of those aircraft might have carried an M1919A4 rather than a AN-M2 .30 cal

Actually, it might just have been from the P-39L that landed in Wexford in Feb 1943, it had four .30 salvaged from it. There is no mention in the report of the salvaged items being sent to Northern Ireland.

Can anyone confirm from lets say a contemporary document that the P-39 variants used M1919 guns instead of ANM2 30 CAL??

[Leendert]

Dennis,

When taking a look at MACR 206 of July 1943 (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/90889366) it shows that this P-39L had type Browning M2 guns...

The other two MACR reports for a P-39L (2700 and 4475 for same a/c) give no details, only caliber.

Regards,
Leendert

[dp_burke]

Good find!! Thank you.

I searched those MACRs but wasn't very sucessful. This helps a lot.