Category: History

Wallace Higgins accepted the Congressional Gold Medal on Friday for his service more than 70 years ago in the Tuskegee Airmen, the Army Air program that trained African-Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft during the war. (FOX)- He was followed on the stage at the National Warplane Museum by Herbert Thorpe, who earned B-25 […]

A Massachusetts fisherman and former U.S. Army private has been honored by Poland for his role in returning cultural treasures stolen by the Nazis during World War II. (FOX)- The Gloucester (GLAH’-stur) Times (http://bit.ly/2eEjtp8 ) reports Curtis Dagley was awarded a Bene Merito medal for helping save the 15th-century altarpiece of St. Mary’s Church in […]

A bomb squad is at a South Carolina beach after Hurricane Matthew apparently unearthed old Civil War cannonballs from the sand. (FOX)- Charleston County Sheriff’s spokesman Maj. Eric Watson said in a news release that the cannonballs were found on Folly Beach on Sunday afternoon, but bomb squad members couldn’t get to it immediately because […]

Authorities are requesting archived news footage from Salt Lake City television stations in search of potential clues relating to the unsolved killing of a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her home more than 20 years ago. (FOX)- Salt Lake City police Det. Richard Chipping said Wednesday the request does not come as a result […]

Nazi Germany developed numerous tank designs during World War II. In addition to domestic designs, Germany also employed various captured and foreign-built tanks. The German tank force was an amazing success due to tactical innovation more than tank quality. Using Blitzkrieg tactics, Guderian, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist and other field commanders such as Rommel […]

I am a HUGE fan of the broomhandle Mausers. Always have been. Ian from Forgotten Weapons gets his hand on a truly unique variant of this world famous firearm. Here is what he has to say: “This scoped C96 carbine is serial number 12 of the original run of just 30 large-ring C96 carbines. It […]

The M1D was the final adopted form of John Garands sniper M1 rifle, originally the M1E8. If you have not checked out Forgotten Weapons’ YouTube channel, you need too. Ian really knows his stuff and gets his hands on some AMAZING firearms. Here is what Ian has to say about the M1D Garand. “It was […]

The Lahti L39 was the Finnish answer to the need for an anti-tank rifle, developed just before the Winter War. The rifle was created by noted Finnish designed Aimo Lahti, who had pressed for it to use a 13.2mm cartridge. However, arguments for using a 20x138B cartridge won out, based on hopes to use that […]

The SL-8 was Heckler & Koch’s civilianized version of the G36 military rifle. There was, unsurprisingly, a major interest in semiautomatic civilian copies of the G36, but H&K was in a difficult position to meet the demand. At the time (mid-1990s) such a rifle was subject to both the 1989 assault weapon importation ban and […]

During the 1920s, a lot of experimental rifle development work was being done in the US. The military was interested in finding a semiautomatic rifle, and plenty of inventors were eager to get that valuable military contract. One particular item of interest to the military was the possibility of being able to convert large existing […]