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Category: Weapons & Gear Manual

ww2-italy-autoblinda-armored-car-soldiers

Italy’s Compact, but Flawed, Armored Car

by Larry Porges2/6/20231/25/2023
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The Little Boats that Could: This Vessel Did Yeoman’s Work for the US Navy During WWII

by Larry Porges2/3/20232/3/2023
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How The ‘French 75’ Started A Revolution in Field Artillery

by Chris McNab2/1/20232/1/2023
ww2-pearl-harbor-uss-arizona

What Made The Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor So Devastating? This Ordnance.

by Paraag Shukla1/30/20231/30/2023
ww2-britain-lee-enfield-rifle-home-guard

The Lee-Enfield Put a SMLE on Tommies’ Faces and Fear in the Germans Hearts

by Paraag Shukla1/27/20231/27/2023
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Book Review: Tanks in the Battle of Germany, 1945, Western Front 

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher1/25/20234/26/2024
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Is It a Tank or a Flamethrower? Answer: It’s Both

by Larry Porges1/23/20231/23/2023
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The DUKW Amphibious Truck: A Workhorse For Ferrying Troops and Supplies

by World War II Magazine1/12/20235/30/2023

Anti-Tank Quarterbacks: When the Army Put Grenades Inside Footballs

by Claire Barrett1/9/20231/9/2023
Photo of Soldiers of the National Liberation Front , the Viet Cong, in the early 1960s display weapons from a variety of sources, from left, a captured American M79 grenade launcher; an American M1 carbine, captured from the French or South Vietnamese or supplied by the Chinese; and a K-50M submachine gun supplied by North Vietnam.

Here Are the Weapons of the NVA — Backed by Russia and China

by Jon Guttman12/19/202212/19/2022

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