During World War II, American troops used unusual radio expressions, coded calls, and short phrases to communicate quickly and reduce misunderstandings under battlefield conditions. While these phrases were used for efficiency purposes, they sound a bit cryptic today. These are…
A flat deck with almost no steps. And four smokestacks lined up in the center. This silhouette, which symbolized the U.S. Navy of the 1920s and 30s, was common to the large number of destroyers known as "flush deckers." USS Litchfield (DD-336) was one…
In 1941, a problem had emerged within the German military. Both armored units and supply units were moving faster than before. While tanks, armored vehicles, and trucks advanced along the roads, enemy aircraft would strike from above. Although anti-aircraft guns themselves…
In 1914, a whole generation is drawn into the world’s first global conflict. During its four years, the Great War would call upon seventy million men from twenty countries to do their duty. Nine million would die. In Killing Fields, soldiers…
The Italian army has uncovered a tranche of ordnance dating back to the White War of the First World War Hundreds of World War I-era bombs, grenades and artillery shells have been uncovered by the melting of ice in Italy’s…
Rome (CNN) — Some 250 World War I-era munitions that emerged from rapidly retreating glaciers in the Italian Dolomites have been removed. Artillery shells, mortar bombs and other ammunition had initially been found in the Trentino-Alto Adige region by hikers, naturalists and,…
The experimental Warner & Swasey scope was tested by the Ordnance Department and found to be satisfactory for service use. The very high price of the scope, about $80 per unit, was nearly double the cost of an ’03 rifle and was deemed…
He tried to escape from the Germans seven times in 136 days. The post One of the first Americans to survive a submarine attack led a daring POW escape appeared first on We Are The Mighty. Get We Are The Mighty’s…
US Army General George S. Patton never ran a company. However, he wrote one of the best management rules ever put on paper. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with…
Italian army removes and defuses 250 explosives encased in ice for more than 100 years after hikers’ sightings A significant cache of unexploded bombs from the first world war emerged this summer from rapidly retreating glaciers in the Dolomites, the Italian army…
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