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The 7.92x33mm Kurz was the Mauser case chopped to 33 millimeters — enough reach for the fights soldiers were actually in, light enough to...
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The 7.92x33mm Kurz was the Mauser case chopped to 33 millimeters — enough reach for the fights soldiers were actually in, light enough to...
Designed to crack Germany's Siegfried Line, the 95-ton T28 wasn't ready until August 1945, three months after Germany surrendered. One prototype was scrapped; the...
The Fairey Swordfish first flew in 1934 and joined the Fleet Air Arm in 1936, and by 1941 it looked like an antique: a...
"Every man is scared in his first battle," George S. Patton told his troops, and he spent 1944 proving fear could be controlled.
In September 1918 a German machine gun shot George Patton through the thigh as he led the 304th Tank Brigade forward in the Meuse-Argonne....
German officers brought a two-hour ultimatum to the 327th Glider Infantry south of Bastogne. McAuliffe’s typed reply was “NUTS!” Col. Bud Harper told them...
On May 14, 1916, George Patton used three cars in a raid near San Miguelito and killed Julio Cardenas. In 1943 his Seventh Army...
George C. Marshall put Dwight D. Eisenhower in War Plans in 1941. Ike then ran Operation Torch, Sicily, and Italy before commanding Operation Overlord...
The brief handed to design director Phil Strader was single-stack width with double-stack capacity and no compromise on either. The answer was an offset...
The whole Mauser 98 rifle is 44 parts, and only 29 of them are in the action — fewer moving pieces than the British...