Category: Weapons and Technology
M4 Furious – 11 Essential Facts About the Sherman Tank
“Widely acclaimed as one of the main contributors to the Allied victory, the M4 Sherman is perhaps the most recognizable American fighting vehicle of the entire Second World War.” THE GRITTY WAR DRAMA FURY conquered the box…
Stalin’s Organ – 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Russia’s Katyusha Rocket
“The Katyusha was omnipresent on the Eastern Front and likely contributed as much to the Allied victory as the M4 Sherman tank, the Higgins Boat or the Spitfire.” FOR ANYONE who fought on the Eastern Front in World…
Winged Warriors – The Glider Troopers of WW2
“Tens of thousands of gliders would be used in the war and ‘airlanding’ regiments would see action in no fewer than eight major operations.” ON SEPT. 13, 1943, HIGH ATOP ITALY’S Apennine Mountains, one of the most…
Tomahawk – A Brief History of the BGM-109
“Following its combat debut in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the ship or sub-launched BGM-109 would be used in every major U.S. air campaign for the next 30 years” WHILE OFTEN CONSIDERED on the ‘cutting-edge’ of…
Gooney Birds – 12 Experimental Aircraft That Were Too Weird for Use in WW2
“A number of these experimental aircraft featured designs so innovative and outlandish they call out for recognition even now, more than 70 years later.” MORE AIRPLANES rolled off assembly lines during World War Two than in any…
Yellow Fever, Greek Fire and Poison Gas — Secret Weapons of the U.S. Civil War
By Jeffrey B. Roth The American Civil War was a conflict that sat astride two phases in military history: It began with generals on both sides employing timeworn Napoleonic-era strategies and ended with horrific trench…
