WW2

Although the United States has remained embroiled in war of one sort or another fairly consistently since the final days of World War II, something about that war prevents it from waning out of our cultural lexicon.  War stories about later conflicts, like Vietnam and Korea, have been transposed to film and television, of course, […]

America’s World War II aviators found themselves at the very forefront of warfighting technology, and as such, they also found themselves facing challenges never before encountered by anyone in combat. From night flying missions that had never been attempted, to massive aerial dogfights unlike anything to ever take place in the skies above us, these […]

War has been accompanying humans from the very beginning. It is destruction and evolution. It takes out lives and it advances our civilization, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. But war is nothing without warriors. It depends on violence and those willing to apply it. But how much violence? What kind of violence and under […]

In 1940, the situation was looking dim for the British. After the successful evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk they were left alone to defend their island against the Nazi onslaught. Winston Churchill knew he needed to strike back, but large military operations were out of the question at the time so he […]

In the modern age of missiles we can fire at targets over the horizon, and a seemingly limitless suite of radar, infrared, and optics technologies designed specifically to keep our pilots aware of everything going on around them, one could be forgiven for forgetting that there was a time when military aviation relied almost solely […]

Many veterans of war return home to find the rigors of daily life to be quite a bit different from the on and off adrenaline flow they sustained for months or years while deployed.  It could be argued that the rapid transitions from relaxation to panicked survival experienced by war fighters on the front lines […]

There are times when being a gun writer really pays off, one of those times is when your friend calls and asks if you want to go with him to the range to shoot a piece of living history in the form of a captured German ZB-37 machine gun. The ZB-37 was originally produced in […]

The M70A might be one of the most overlooked and affordable pistols to hit the market in quite sometime. The Serbian made pistol is a modern adaptation of a Soviet TT pistol, a design of famed Russian firearms designer Fedor Tokarev. There are distinct differences between the Soviet TT and the Zastava M70A, the chief […]

The wreckage of a World War II era German fighter plane has been discovered in a small Danish farm by a fourteen-year-old boy and his father while they were doing research for his history class. Daniel Kristiansen grew up hearing stories from his grandfather about a Nazi warplane crashing on their land as a child, […]

Serving in the military instills a real sense of pride in many veterans. It’s not just the things you accomplished or the good you did while in uniform, but the understanding that you helped carry a torch passed to you by the previous generation. Your uniform, your title, even many of the challenges you face can […]

In February 1945, a small group of personnel assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime spy agency, scrambled to prepare for a particularly risky mission: inserting a team of agents deep behind Nazi lines with the goal of gleaning crucial enemy information. For a host of reasons, the proposed operation seemed like a suicide mission. […]