Leonard Dowling, who turned 100 on June 21, shared some of his WWII experience about getting shot down in a Liberator bomber ...

The Flak 88 earned its reputation as the best overall gun of the war. It was justifiably feared by Allied airmen, tankers, ...

US Tanks of WW2 Before World War II, the US Army didn't think tanks should fight other tanks. Instead, that job was assigned ...

The water-cooled M1917 served with U.S. forces in World War I, between the wars, throughout World War II, the Korean War, until phased out of U.S. service in the late 1950s.

Over the course of World War II, Northrop built roughly 700 P-61s, also known as the Black Widow, which was equipped with four 50-caliber machine guns, four 20mm cannons, and could carry up to ...

To identify American military guns that were used to fight World War II by United States forces, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a catalog of small arms from Military Factory, an online database of ...

World War II German V bombers took 12 seconds to drop on their targets. The Allied Forces' anti-aircraft weapons couldn't stop them. Mr. Holmes told the story of a ... American History TV ...

Connie Evans joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1941 and served as a height and range plotter on an anti-aircraft ... 00:02:54 Connie Evans: 'You had to work fast' on WW2 anti-aircraft guns.

With its origins in the Great War, the .50-cal. Browning machine gun—on land, on the sea and in the air—was a decisive arm for America’s victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. And ...

Few American weapons are quite so legendary as the powerful M2 .50 caliber heavy machine gun, or “Ma Deuce,” still widely employed a century after its initial development in 1918. However, the ...

The secret of American victory in World War II was quantity and quality. Copious amounts of weapons and equipment that not only overwhelmed and outmatched the Axis arsenal, but helped enable Lend ...

An iconic set of Quad 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns from the fabled WWII battleship USS Missouri arrived at the ... describing their iconic role defending American warships and sailors ...