Here are a few rare photos that I have dug up: A young body builder gives a piggyback to a 200-pound man in 1940. A rebel sniper aims at a Syrian army position, as he and another rebel fighter are reflected in a mirror inside a residential building in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syr…
Here are a few rare photos that I have dug up: A young body builder gives a piggyback to a 200-pound man in 1940. A rebel sniper aims at a Syrian army position, as he and another rebel fighter are reflected in a mirror inside a residential buildi…
At the very dawn of the 20th century, Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) developed a three lens camera that produced pictures of unbelievable quality for the time. Impressed, the Tsar Nicolas II sent him on a ph…
Obviously, punishment if they make a mistake is a common way. Let’s take a look at how the Vietnamese commander punishes their soldiers. Got caught smoking? No problem. You would be smoked as many as you want but at a higher level. 2. Don’t forget…
The first eight months of World War II, running from September 1939 to April 1940, became known as Phoney War, Drôle de guerre, or Sitzkrieg. The Battle of France, known under the codenames Fall Gelb and Case Yellow, got underway on 10 May with th…
50 year old master mortar man GySgt Lou Diamond was known as a wild character. When the USMC arrived on Guadalcanal, they lacked their heavy 155mm artillery. The Japanese ships would move in to fire on their positions without meeting resistance. At…
The Corsair prototype had a cockpit located 91 cm farther forward than normal. Reconnaissance from Europe indicated that the production Corsair needed more fire-arms, meaning that later, six .50 calibre machineguns were placed into the wings. Earli…
A tank struck by the wrong kind of ammunition could survive impact by hundreds of rounds of anti-tank ammunition. So, simply a well aimed discarding sabot depleted uranium penetrator from a Western 120mm gun is sufficient to disable ANY tank. It is…
Hello there Now I will analyze the M2 Browning and its Russian equivalent – the DShk. Their calibers are of the same kind: 12.7, however, their rounds are different The M2 was chambered in 12.7x99, or .50 BMG, while the DShK fires the bigger 12.7x1…
