The personal firearms, tanks, artillery, and other forms of weapons used during World War Two.
The personal firearms, tanks, artillery, and other forms of weapons used during World War Two.
The following article on antitank weapons is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman' D-Day Encyclopedia. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Antitank Weapons: American Bazooka Officially the Antitank Rocket Launcher, the ‘‘bazooka’’ was the most famous of American antitank weapons of World War II. Named for its resemblance to…
The Manhattan Project was a code name of an effort started in late 1941 to design and build the atomic bomb. In 1939, Einstein and other scientists urged the American Government to start building an atomic bomb when they heard that German physicists had discovered the secrets of splitting uranium…
Scott Michael Rank, Ph.D., is the editor of History on the Net and host of the History Unplugged podcast. A historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, he is a publisher of popular history, a podcaster, and online course creator.
