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Tom Hanks famously depicted Captain John Miller in “Saving Private Ryan” toting his trusty Thompson submachine gun — “Tommy gun” — from the beaches of Normandy far into the interior of France in 1944.

Here’s What You Need to Know: This German gun had a number of disadvantages on the Eastern Front of World War II. The iconic MP 40 was a German submachine... Here’s What You Need to Know: It was an ...

World War II accelerated the shift from bolt-action rifles to semi-automatic and automatic weapons that redefined infantry tactics. Mass production innovations like metal stamping enabled nations to ...