He wrote: 'Anti-tank guns fired somewhere from the front and John's carrier ... It was blown again, and they then saw the ...
An anti-tank rifle is an anti-materiel rifle designed to penetrate the ... The usefulness of rifles for this purpose ran from the introduction of tanks in World War I until the Korean War. While ...
"Everyone was scared. ... I sometimes think of the people who were there. Dirty GIs. Unshaven. Dirty as the devil. Cold.
You couldn’t see very few feet in front, but you had to keep your eyes open, because if you didn’t, it meant you were going to get hit by an anti-tank gun.” Adding to the cold, Miller’s ...
As a tank destroyer commander without a tank destroyer, Medal of Honor recipient Staff Sgt. Clyde Choate had to do ...
Seven years after the tank ride opening a terrible tragedy happened on the shooting range at the Kursaal. In May of 1927 Eric Evers was shot at the Kursaal rifle range where he was working as an ...
A number of Indigenous WWI soldiers pose for a photo at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. (Indiana University Archaeology and Anthropology Museum) “I’m so thankful that his blood runs in our veins ...
For more than 80 years, Bruce Calvi kept the catcher’s mitt his uncle Bernard used as a teenager at Drury High School in North Adams. Private First Class Bernard J. Calvi died as a prisoner of ...
The true story of the 855 Black women in the Women's Army Corps during World War II – the only all-Black Women's Army Corps unit overseas during the war – is getting the due it deserves in ...
According to most official accounts, Georgia Watson did not exist. As part of a highly secretive Army unit, composed almost entirely of women responsible for defending D.C. against an air attack ...