Thompson Submachine Gun. Guns; Foul Play Brought the Thompson SMG to the Marine Corps The Thompson SMG, used by gangsters, ... The World War II M1 Carbine Was Ahead of its Time ...

From battlefields in World War II to gang wars in the U.S., the infamous Thompson submachine gun has a lot of history behind it.

The iconic Thompson Submachine Gun was the main Allied submachine gun in the critical early years of World War II. From Bataan to the Kasserine Pass, and from Normandy to Okinawa, the “Tommy Gun ...

As soon as the United States entered the Second World War, it was an opportunity for the country to wake ...

While the M1 Garand rifle and the Thompson submachine gun were named for their respective designers, the M1 Carbine was not named for anyone in particular. Plenty of other “M1s” —from the ...

The U.S. Army went into World War II with the M1928A1 Thompson submachine gun, which fired the same .45 ACP round as the M1911A1 pistol. Towards the end of the war the Thompson was supplemented by ...