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Australia’s Owen Gun

By Jon Diamond

A casual observer of World War II photographs after 1943 will often notice slouch hat- or beret-wearing Australian “diggers,” or armed Melanesian natives in the Australian Constabulary battalions, slogging through the muck and jungle of New Guinea, Bougainville, New Britain, and Borneo carrying a rather odd-looking weapon with a vertical top-mounting magazine. Read more

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Mission to Madagascar: British Assault on Diego Suarez Port

By Cleve C. Barkley

In early 1942 things could have hardly looked bleaker for the Allies. In Europe, Hitler’s war machine had steamrolled across the entire continent and was now battling before the gates of Moscow. Read more

Christened by its inventors the Thompson Gun—and colloquially referred to as "Tommy guns"—General Thompson contracted with the Colt Patent Firearms Company to produce 15,000, at cost of $38.25 per gun.

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The Thompson Gun’s Curious History, from World War I to World War II

By Arnold Blumberg

In 1917, when America entered the First World War, the United States Army tasked Brigadier General John T. Read more

Australia’s Owen Gun

Mission to Madagascar: British Assault on Diego Suarez Port

The Thompson Gun’s Curious History, from World War I to World War II

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