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Author Archives: Jon Guttman

Schematic of a Mosin-Nagand 1891/30 Russian sniper rifle
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual

Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30: Russia’s World War II Sniper Rifle

by Jon Guttman3/4/20111/12/2023
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual

Hand Signals: The Vocabulary of Battlefield Stealth

by Jon Guttman3/4/20113/7/2016
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual

Flammenwerfer: Hell on Earth in the Trenches

by Jon Guttman1/7/20114/13/2016
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual

Socket Bayonet: A Musketeer’s Weapon of Choice

by Jon Guttman1/7/20114/13/2016
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual

Brown Bess Musket: The Weapon That Won Waterloo

by Jon Guttman11/4/20104/13/2016
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual

M-1943 Entrenching Tool: The Swiss Army Knife of Field Spades

by Jon Guttman11/4/20104/13/2016
Posted inReview

Book Review – Lullabies for Lieutenants: Memoir of a Marine Forward Observer in Vietnam 1965-1966, by Franklin Cox

by Jon Guttman9/15/20104/12/2016
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual

Roman Gladius and Scutum: Carving out an Empire

by Jon Guttman8/13/20104/13/2016
Posted inWeapons & Gear Manual

City-Class Gunboats: Mayhem on the Mississippi

by Jon Guttman8/13/20104/13/2016
Posted inReview

Book Review – F-105 Thunderchief Units of the Vietnam War, by Peter Davies

by Jon Guttman7/29/20104/12/2016

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