Description

Title: The Owen Gun – An Australian Wartime Controversy

Author: Smith, Kevin

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1994

ISBN: 0908031548

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 277 pages

Comments: The story surrounding the development of the Australian Owen Gun.

The Owen Gun, which was known officially as the Owen Machine Carbine, was an Australian submachine gun designed by Evelyn (Evo) Owen in 1939. The Owen was the only entirely Australian-designed and main service submachine gun of World War II and was used by the Australian Army from 1943 until the mid-1960s.