The Walther P-38 arguably supplants even the infamous Luger P.08 as the definitive German pistol of the 20th century. Its development began in the early 1930s, when a cash-strapped German army looked ...

Many movies, TV shows and video games have convinced many to believe that every other German soldier must have carried a “Schmeisser” – the erroneous nickname of the MP40. It is first important to ...

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The Kugelblitz, officially known as the Flakpanzer IV Kugelblitz (“Ball Lightning”), was a late-war German self-propelled ...

The American troops who had invaded Salerno, Italy, on Sept. 9, 1943, were taking a shellacking from well-placed German guns, forcing Gen. James Doolittle, who was commanding American air units in the ...

After the so-called “miracle of Dunkirk,” in which the British military were able to successfully evacuate the majority of the British Expeditionary Force, along with a large number of French troops, ...

German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet that ...