World War II

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!

History is never finished being written; it is under constant revision as new facts come to light. And this is true for the Battle of Midway.

General George S. Patton, near the end of World War II, called the M1 Garand, “the greatest battle implement ever devised.”

Unlike many of the paratroopers who went through their baptism of fire on D-Day, Charles DeGlopper was already an experienced fighter.