Bill Yenne’s 2009 book, “Tommy Gun: How General Thompson’s Submachine Gun Wrote History,” describes how, toward the end of the war, infantryman Mike Colalillo was sitting atop a Sherman tank during ...

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 ...

Ralph H. Baer Papers, 1943-2015, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees ...