The Thompson submachine gun used to kill mob boss Hymie Weiss in Chicago, circa 1926. (Chicago Tribune historical photo) France and England ordered thousands of Tommy guns as World War II got ...

"More than a third of the 18,000 B-24 bombers produced during World War II were shot down, and most air crewmen did not ...

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 ...

I bought my first gun, a 1942 Mosin Nagant, a Soviet World War II rifle that I bought in a pawn shop for next to nothing. Did I make the right choice?

A GUN tower complete with cannons ... You’ll also be in an exclusive club of four WW2 Martello Towers located nearby. “Tower W is the south-most in a ‘club’ of four Martello Towers.

Morris Barker may be 99 years old — with his 100th-birthday coming in January, but he vividly recalls his time as an Army Air ...

Our Heroes, Their Own Words is a special on-going series on ABC 7 and FOX 22 honoring Maine's World War II veterans. Today we ...

and that is the rarest of things – a respectful shooter and one of the best WW2 games. By the time a game’s given you a gun and sent you on your way, you’ve already started pondering the ...

Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Thompson, affectionately dubbed the ‘hot equerry’, has announced his engagement to Olivia Lewis, his girlfriend of 18 months. The announcement, first reported in The ...

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Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man ...