Category: Weapons and Technology
First Armour — Five Early Tanks That Changed the Course of World War One
“Ponderously slow, clumsy and mechanically unreliable, a handful of these top secret armoured “land ships” still succeeded in rolling over the German barbed wire and fortifications.” THE TOWNS OF Flers and Courcelette may not figure…
Machine Gun — How Hiram Maxim’s Deadly Invention Changed History
“Hilaire Belloc summed things up best in 1898’s The Modern Traveller when he wrote: ‘Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim gun, and they have not.’” By Sam Bocetta HIRAM MAXIM WAS a prolific American…
The Fast and the Furious — A Quick History of Civil War Repeating Rifles
“The two most common repeater rifles available during the Civil War were the Spencer and Henry rifles. Both gave the infantry a tremendous advantage on the battlefield.” By Sam Bocetta THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR was…
Tank Busting – Blowing Up the Myth of the Mighty M4 Sherman
“The Battle of the Bulge exposed deficiencies in the M4 so glaringly obvious, what became known as the Sherman Tank Scandal would be splashed across front pages all over the Allied world.” By Christian M….
American Snipers – A Brief History of U.S. Military Sharpshooters and their Weaponry
“From their first appearance during the American Civil War, the techniques and technology of sniping have developed together, with each new technological advance making the sniper deadlier at a greater range.” By Sam Bocetta SNIPERS ARE…
The Plane That REALLY Won WW2 – Everything You Need to Know About the C-47 Skytrain
“The C-47 was the primary carrier of American and British airborne troops during World War Two.” WHEN HE WROTE his memoir of World War Two, titled Crusade In Europe, General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of…
