A Stinger machine gun in WWII Which is precisely how a few United ... The additional firepower allowed Colby to successfully repel a surprise Japanese assault, proving that the concept had enough ...

On the eve of World War II, it joined a hurry ... ready for the expected Japanese invasion,” recalled Fritz Dickie, Stembridge’s manager. The Thompson submachine gun used to kill mob boss ...

America's "Arsenal of Democracy" relied on commercial manufacturers re-tooling to make the firearms necessary for American troops to fight across the world. One of the biggest plants was the Saginaw ...

Katsumoto Saotome, a Japanese writer who gathered the accounts of survivors of the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo in World War II to raise awareness of the massive civilian deaths and the importance of ...

GIs and Marines from World War II through the Vietnam War don't hide ... Designed to replace the pistol and submachine gun for officers and specialty troops, the M1 carbine was not, and could ...

Local media reports indicate that the explosion was triggered by a 500-pound US bomb, which had been buried beneath the airport since World War II, according to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces ...

1364 - First recorded use of a firearm. 1380 - Hand guns are known across Europe. 1400s - The matchlock gun appears. Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch ...

But thanks to the strenuous efforts of his grandson, the promise was kept, and a Japanese sword in the U.S. veteran’s possession was returned to the family of a former enemy combatant after a ...

But, you know, they were held, too.” Roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II after then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump compared the detention of his supporters who have been charged or convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to the mass imprisonment of ...

But a more storied use of the “Tommy gun ... World War II got underway. U.S. soldiers were also armed with the weapon. Bill Yenne’s 2009 book, “Tommy Gun: How General Thompson’s Submachine ...