grenades, rocks and lengths of rope, to shoot, bomb, damage or entangle their enemies. New weapons called anti-aircraft guns were placed around entrenchments to shoot down hostile aircraft. They fired explosive or incendiary rounds, known during WWII as ‘flak’,...
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Jacob Jones was a Tucker-class destroyer equipped with four 4-inch guns and eight 533mm torpedo tubes. Built for speed, Jacob Jones had two Curtis steam turbines, which delivered a total of 17,000 shaft horsepower, giving her a top speed of 30 knots. She was manned by a crew of 110 ...
In World War I Germany used huge Paris guns capable of firing 234-pound shells up to a range of 81 miles. Photo: Public Domain When the guns were first fired, Parisians thought they were being attacked by high-altitude German Zeppelins. This is because the German supergun shells were fi...
Each player alternately throws three darts and tries to eliminate the Nazis by hitting their ships, guns, aircraft etc. - deducting the number scored from their total. The number is added to their score if a player hits one of the Allies (ships, guns, aircraft, etc.)...
Paris Gun, any of several long-range cannon produced by the German arms manufacturer Krupp in 1917–18 during World War I. The guns were so called because they were specially built to shell Paris at a range, never before attained, of approximately 121 km
The Allied offensive would be supported by thousands of heavy and super-heavy field guns, more than 600 tanks, and 2,000 aircraft. The Germans were greatly outnumbered and, in the words of German military chief Erich Ludendorff,“depressed down to Hell.” The Germans were protected by three ...
Kyle Mizokami is a writer on defense and security issues and has been atsince 2015. If it involves explosions or projectiles, he's generally in favor of it. Kyle’s articles have appeared atThe Daily Beast, U.S. Naval Institute News, The Diplomat, Foreign Policy, Combat Aircraft Monthly,...