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15 submachine guns that turned soldiers into legends during WWII

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The National Interest

The Thompson Submachine Gun: Made for the U.S. Postal Service?

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The first U.S. government customer was actually the United States Postal Inspection Service and the weapon was carried by agents to protect mail on trains and in ...
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Thompson Model 1928 Submachine Gun

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During World War I, machine guns were ...
The National Interest

This Submachine Gun Was Supposedly Better than the Thompson—But it Wasn’t

Eugene Reising, and assistant to the famed American weapon designer, initially designed the M50. His submachine gun design was in many ways superior to the Thompson. It was lighter, weighing a paltry ...
Chicago Tribune

The ‘Tommy gun’ was designed for soldiers. But Chicago gangsters made it notorious.

Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...
The Pantagraph

‘Tommy gun’ designed for soldiers, made notorious by Chicago gangsters

Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who was awarded a medal “for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service as chief of the small arms division of the office of the chief of ordnance,” was the ...