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Know Your Weapons: The M79, The Iconic “Bloop Tube” 40mm Grenade Launcher

Posted on 4 December 2020 by The Tactical Hermit

Combat experience with the bazooka rocket launcher in World War Two and its larger versions in the Korean War convinced the US military that a better weapon was needed to give front-line troops a direct-fire way to attach enemy strong points. The bazooka was bulky, not particularly accurate, and created a lot of backlist signature… M79:…

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Home Made Arsenal – Nine Ingenious Weapons of the Polish Underground

Posted on 16 October 2020 by The Tactical Hermit

“Many of the underground’s own submachine guns, grenades and pistols had been secretly mass-produced for years.” IN AUGUST 1944, nearly 20,000 fighters from Poland’s underground Armia Krajowa (AK) or “Home Army,” launched a series of coordinated assaults on Nazi forces…Read more → Home Made Arsenal – Nine Ingenious Weapons of the Polish Underground — MilitaryHistoryNow.com

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Know Your WW2 History: The Iron Fist – 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen

Posted on 26 May 2020 by The Tactical Hermit

Marder I, 17 SS Panzergrenadier Division Gotz von Berlichingen 17. SS commander Werner von Ostendorf (left) plans the attack on Carentan with Fallschirmjager commander Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte (centre). Thrown into combat on 10 June 1944 near Carentan, the reconnaissance battalion of the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division fought the American paratroops of the […]…

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Know Your WW2 History: The Blitzkrieg – Word and Concept

Posted on 26 May 2020 by The Tactical Hermit

I never used the word Blitzkrieg because it is a very stupid word. Adolf Hitler, 8 November 1941 The Word “Blitzkrieg” In sober military language, there is hardly any other word that is so strikingly full of significance and at the same time so misleading and subject to misinterpretation as the term blitzkrieg. Its early […]…

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We Accept Death, We Hand Out Death I

Posted on 30 April 2020 by The Tactical Hermit

Hitler envisaged the star turn of his Ardennes offensive to be the Sixth Panzer Army, an entirely new creation. That it was to be led by the Waffen-SS’s senior field commander, and contain four SS panzer divisions, was no accident. This was another of the Führer’s responses to 20 July: thereafter the only organisation with […]…

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Know Your Weapons: Hungarian 44M “Mace Thrower”

Posted on 20 January 2020 by The Tactical Hermit

Hungarian Army: 44M “Mace Thrower”   I am always interested in Partisan warfare and weaponry and this one is amazing. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!  

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Wellington Bomber in Service

Posted on 9 March 2019 by The Tactical Hermit

Research material for Part 2 of my WW2 OSS Trilogy, which should be finished by early summer 2019. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!  

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WW2 History: The British Cromwell Tank

Posted on 12 January 2019 by The Tactical Hermit

One of the sleekest British cruiser tank designs of WW2 that saw action primarily with the “Bloody 7th”, (British Seventh Armored Division) during Operation Market Garden in September 1944 in Holland.   Warfare History Network Weapons and Warfare   Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!    

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Military News: There’s A New Grenade In Town

Posted on 17 September 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The U.S. Army Designs a New Hand Grenade After More Than 40 Years (click on above link to be re-directed to source page) Well the ole’ M67 has gone the way of the dodo bird. Enter ET-MP Frag/Concussion Twofer. Now our enemies get a 2 for 1 deal…Concussion and Shrapnel all in one big, bright and…

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World War Two Era Weapons: Clandestine Weapons of the OSS

Posted on 6 September 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Clandestine weapons so clandestine, they never were. Thanks OSS! (click on above link to be re-directed to source page) A really interesting read with some awesome links to other articles. Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!    

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