WW2

The flamethrower could kill in more ways besides immolation. An extremely effective way of clearing defensive positions its use as a weapon is now banned.

Men have fought in combat under every possible condition but the conditions listed under the five worst battlefields would give any casual reader pause.

The American cavalry charge was so fierce that the Japanese ranks broke. Even the Japanese tanks were forced to stop.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The U.S. must prove that it can learn from history.

A well-trained commando means the enemy will not see the attack coming.

While the SKS never reached the same level of fame as the AK it still served the motherland proud and armed a generation of commies.

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 […]

In just five minutes, the entire scope of the war had changed. Japan’s massive superiority in aircraft carriers was obliterated in Midway.

The M1911 served the U.S. military from 1911 to 1985. In that time, it saw action in the hands of badasses who accomplished tremendous feats.

Guinness World Records stopped tracking the world’s most decorated soldiers because the importance and distinction of certain medals outweigh the number of medals a service member can be awarded — a point veterans certainly understand. What brought this issue to Guinness’s attention was the medal count between Audie Murphy — long regarded as the most […]

Sensational press accounts were just plain rabid about this man from the time he “escaped” a post-WWII “Officers’” holding camp, until the start of the Vietnam conflict. All he ever really wanted to be was a Mechanical Engineer and to serve his country honorably. Most of us would never have heard of this Commando’s successes […]

The value of the operation was in the morale boost it generated, as a small contingent of men kidnapped a German general from a Nazi stronghold on Crete.