The gun was a replacement for the M1 Thompson sub machine guns and provided a lighter and more accurate weapon. This was one of the more popular ww2 American machine guns. 3. M1 Carbine Rifle This rifle was one of the most commonly used American weapons during WWII and was a part of th...
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The Mark IV was the most common German WW2 tank, and therefore in Normandy. More than eight thousand were built. Designed in 1937, the early models were armed with short-barreled 75 mm guns best suited for infantry support. However, combat experience—especially in Russia— demonstrated the ne...
But what makes it good is that it boasted six .50 caliber machine guns on the wings, and with top speeds of 437 mph, it was one of the absolute fastest planes of the war.As someone who’s seen what happens when the truth is distorted, I know how unfair it feels when those who’...
the six-by-six 18,400. They transported eight thousand pounds at 35 to 40 mph on roads, though the smaller vehicle possessed greater range—220 miles compared to 180. About one-quarter of the Diamond T versions were built with M36 ‘‘sky mounts’’ for .50 caliber machine guns as anti...
There is an episode ofStar Trekin which aliens build an entire culture around a book about Chicago mobsters of the 1920s. The aliens recreate the guns, the clothes and the lingo, but it’s just a guess based on what they see in the book. The new musicalAllegiance,now playing at The ...
which were armed with two forward firing, fixed machine guns, a flexible gun in a dorsal mounting, and an A-3 bomb rack under the fuselage. All three Model Os survived into the 1940s and received the standard Honduran paint scheme of dark blue and silver with the Honduran coat of arms ...
When Mangrum returned to the States, one of the things he hoped to see was a new generation of USN and USMC attack aircraft with plenty of functional forward-firing guns that could wreak havoc on such Japanese surface vessels. As it was, day after day on Guadalancal, the SBDs, P-400s...
When I heard the term folly last week, it triggered a memory of reading Barbara Tuchman’s 1984 book –The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam. After reading her Pulitzer Prize winning treatise on the opening days of World War I –The Guns of August– I immediately became a huge fan...