World War II

The General Purpose Machine Gun rules the machine-gun world. But where did it come from? We have to look at the MG42 and MG34 to find out.

The choice to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have saved many more lives than it cost.

The time the French soldiers bought allowed the British Expeditionary Force to escape from Dunkirk and live to fight another day.

Many different machine guns were fielded in WWII, some better than others. Yet, these few can truly be counted among the war’s best.

Vasily Zaytsev has gone down in history as a master sniper and his tactics still have a lot to teach to modern-day snipers.

The lionization of Yamamoto by Japanese propaganda had put a huge target on his back. And now he was within range.

Her courage was never questioned, and “her brain worked with the speed and smoothness of skates on ice.”

The legacy of Wild Bill Donovan and his Glorious Amateurs is still alive and strong in the U.S. Special Operations Command and the CIA.

The famous Thompson submachine gun, popularly known as tommy gun, served U.S. Marines in the Pacific as well as mobsters in Chicago.

Norman J. “Dusty” Kleiss was a Battle of Midway hero whose mastery wrought tremendous damage to the Japanese.

Imagine being the British in a post-Dunkirk world. Things didn’t look great for the island nation. It faced an invasion from the German Army and its small arms were hopelessly underwhelming. The Brits needed more, and they began purchasing all the Thompsons they could handle. They weren’t enough and they cost too much to outfit […]

Here’s to a happy 246th birthday to you, U.S. Army! You don’t look a day over 200!