World War II

From gunning down crocodiles with his plane to being the terror of the Japanese, Richard Bong, the Ace of Aces, will always be remembered.

Paul Tibbets recalled, “We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud… boiling up, mushrooming, terrible.”

Guy Gabaldon used his street smarts and knowledge of the Japanese language and culture to perform an extraordinary feat.

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.