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Dan: As usual, your depth of knowledge is amazing. In "Winged Warfare" by Michael Paris, he says the Brits were passing lewis guns to the French to expedite engine and aeroplane deliveries. "The RFC kept itself short of weapons in order to maintain machines and spare parts" (Paris 227). I had never heard of that. As was already mentioned, the French had the Hotchkiss gun, so why the Lewis gun? Then, I saw that the Lewis was standard equipment on the Bebe. Was there something about the Lewis gun that made it more attractive as armament at that stage and for that particular bird? Was the Hotchkiss used someplace else?
Why not on the Bebe? Just questions that came to mind.
DD
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