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Know Your Weapons: The Walther P-38, Germany’s Most Popular Wartime Pistol

Posted on 11 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

In 1929, German gun-maker Waffenfabrik Walther began developing a new nine-millimeter pistol for military use. The development violated the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, so Walther kept it secret. Early Walther attempts focused on scaling up its “PP” line of pistols to chamber the larger nine-mil round. This pistol, the Militarpistole, wasn’t…

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Obscure World War Two History: Faking Sick Sometimes Saves Lives

Posted on 11 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

How a Fake Typhus Epidemic Saved a Polish City From the Nazis During World War II, a man went to the doctor in Rozwadów, Poland with a unique complaint. He was one of thousands of Poles forced by the Nazi occupiers to work in German labor camps. The man had been granted a 14-day leave…

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Profiles in Courage: True Heroism Summed Up in a Snapshot

Posted on 10 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

On November 10, 1943, when Lt. Walter L. Chewning Jr., the catapult officer of the USS Enterprise, saw a 9,000-pound F6F Hellcat crash-land on the flight deck and erupt in a ball of flames as it barreled toward the gun gallery, he did not run away. Instead, Chewning deliberately ran toward the wreck, stepped on the burning external…

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Military Weapons From the Past: Japanese 7.65mm Hamada Pistol

Posted on 10 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The Hamada was one of very few Japanese military weapons made by a private commercial firm. Designed and introduced in 1940, the basic Type Hamada pistol was a blowback .32ACP handgun similar in style to the Browning model 1910. About 5000 of them were manufactured during WWII, although most of these were sent to China….

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Cold War Files: What If Japan Had Built an Atomic Bomb?

Posted on 10 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

During the Cold War, the United States supported selective nuclear proliferation as a means of deterring a Soviet invasion of Europe. The Russians might not believe that the United States would trade Berlin for New York, but they might find a British or French threat more credible. Washington did not pursue the same strategy in…

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Military History: The 30 Years War

Posted on 9 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Thirty Years By John Farnam Protestant King Gustavus Adolphus, of Sweden, the “Lion of the North,” the “Snow King,” led a lean, efficient, and highly-mobile army that was able to move faster and hit harder than any thrown against it. He was ahead of his time and nearly unbeatable. His greatest fear was territorial encroachment…

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Espionage Files: The Strange Trip Surrounding MK-Ultra

Posted on 8 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Ten scientists, some from the CIA, gathered in a cabin in Maryland for their semiannual review and conference in November 1953. On day two, a bottle of Cointreau — spiked with LSD — appeared; after it was emptied, Sidney Gottlieb, a CIA program director, informed his colleagues that they were in for a wild ride….

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Military History: The USS Akron, One of the Worse Air Ship Disasters in U.S. History

Posted on 8 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship caught fire as it was trying to dock at Naval Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey. Thirty-six of the 97 people onboard were killed, in addition to one crewman on the ground. The disaster is often called the most devastating loss of life during the zeppelin era,…

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Know Your Weapons: The History of the SIONICS Suppressor

Posted on 7 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

In the early 1960s, former U.S. Office of Strategic Services operative Mitchell WerBell III founded a company dedicated to the development of cheap and efficient sound-suppressors for automatic weapons. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, WerBell had joined the U.S. Army, serving briefly as a second lieutenant with the Signal Corps before volunteering to…

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Military Weapons From the Past: The Lewis Gun

Posted on 7 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

It must be an automatic rifle, Robert Jordan thought. “How much does it weigh?” he asked. “One man can carry it, but it is heavy. It has three legs that fold. We got it in the last serious raid. The one before the wine.” “How many rounds have you for it?” “An infinity,” the gypsy…

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