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Lansing, MI: Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corp., [1943]. 4to. [2], 76 pp. With photo illustrations, diagrams throughout, 1 large folding plate. Printed blue softcovers, black lettering front cover, stapled at gutter margin as issued, logo of the GM War Products Training Service on front cover (minor edgewear, bumping to corners, some minor dustsoiling), still VG copy, w/ former ownership markings at upper fore-edge front cover. First edition of this training manual used at the Air Forces Technical School in Lowry Field, CO, for the M4 autocannon, which was developed by Colt, and used primarily in the Bell P-39 Airacobra and P-63 Kingcobra pursuit fighter aircraft, largely sold to the Soviet Union during World War II for operations on the Eastern Front. Worldcat locates 1 copy (Kentucky Hist. Soc. Library).