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Winston Churchill had been prime minister for seventy-two hours. He offered Parliament nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat, and asked it to back...
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Winston Churchill had been prime minister for seventy-two hours. He offered Parliament nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat, and asked it to back...
General John T. Thompson wanted a lightweight automatic weapon that could clear a trench at close range - something between a pistol and a...
Spanish Mausers badly outshot American Krag-Jorgensens in 1898, and US Army Ordnance came home determined to build something better. What they built looked a...
The first Iranian Tomcat kill came on September 7, 1980, two weeks before Iraq formally invaded - an Mi-25 helicopter shot down with the...
The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) was one of the final ships in the United States Navy’s Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided-missile frigates (FFG). ...
USS New York carried ten 14-inch guns, served with the Grand Fleet and at Iwo Jima, survived two atomic tests and sank as a...
USS Tennessee was moored inboard of USS West Virginia on December 7, 1941, and survived because her neighbor absorbed the torpedoes. Two armor-piercing bombs...
USS Pennsylvania entered service with twelve 14-inch guns, 34,000 horsepower and a completed cost near $15 million. The battleship served through two world wars,...
USS Texas entered service in 1914 with ten 14-inch guns, 28,100 horsepower and a 27,000-ton displacement. After fighting in both world wars and spending...
For most of a century the US and Canada have shared the longest undefended border on Earth. For part of that century, both capitals...