Category: Weapons and Technology
Dover in the Crosshairs – Hitler’s Four-Year Artillery Bombardment of Southern England
“The Dover Strait became the scene of one of World War Two’s longest-running battles.” THE NARROW SPAN OF WATER separating Dover, England from the Pas-de-Calais, France has long been one of the most strategically important…
Six Rapid-Fire Facts About Germany’s MP-38/40 Maschinenpistole
“Allied troops fighting in close quarters in places like Monte Cassino and Stalingrad quickly learned to fear the unmistakable staccato sound of the MP-40’s bursts.” By GermanWarMachine.com THE MP-38/40 Maschinenpistole was the standard Wehrmacht submachine gun of…
Doughboys and Gas — American Chemical Weapons in World War One
“While the United States and its allies were victorious in World War One, it’s unclear what contribution, if any, gas made in bringing the conflict to a conclusion.” By Thomas Faith WORLD WAR ONE remains…
The Super Weapons of 1918 — Nine Game-Changing War Machines Invented During WW1
“Had the slaughter continued into 1919, whole new generations of modern weaponry would have made their bloody mark.” AIRPLANES, machine guns, zeppelins, submarines – all were part of the arsenals of the great military powers…
Unknown Soldiers – How Black Barrage Balloon Troops Kept the D-Day Beaches Safe
“Despite their achievements, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion is largely absent from the D-Day story.” By Linda Hervieux IN THE FALL of 1942, thousands of young American men descended onto a peaceful corner of northwestern Tennessee,…
The Fokker Scourge – How Germany Used the First Purpose-Built Fighter Plane to Win the Air War in 1915
“In late July of 1915, British pilots and observers were reporting encounters with a strange new German monoplane that seemed engineered specifically to destroy airplanes: the Fokker Eindecker.” By Mike Peters ONE HUNDRED YEARS ago…
