It is a classic showdown between Axis and Allies.
There is no denying that the United States military’s M1 Garand was truly the best of the main battle rifles used in the Second World War. Whereas the other powers largely relied on bolt action rifles that were essentially little improved versions of what had been carried in the trenches of World War I, the American soldier and marine had some semi-automatic firepower.
Yet the M1 Garand wasn’t the only semi-automatic weapon employed in the war and both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany employed semi-autos. However, they were no M1 Garand, and it is doubtful Gen. George S. Patton would have called those attempts “the greatest battle implement ever devised.”
Locking in and out of a submerged submarine is not something all
Naval History readers (including this one) will have experienced, so let’s compare it with an everyday task. At the risk of sounding like a punchline, consider changing a light bulb. A simple task by itself, but let’s make it more applicable to Naval Special Warfare from undersea. Imagine you are changing a light bulb in pitch black darkness. A little bit harder now, but still achievable. Okay, so now replace the light bulb, in pitch black darkness, wearing a full scuba rig, underwater, upside-down, and on the back of a submarine under way and making way. Sound hard? Now you understand the feat the submarine force and Special Operations Forces (SUB SOF) team is performing today.
America sent her to stop Hitler from getting France s warships.
Here s What You Need to Remember: USS
Massachusetts returned to the United States after the war, and decommissioned in 1947. It would remain in reserve for fifteen years. Because of cramped conditions on the South Dakotas, the Navy preferred to use Washington and North Carolina as training vessels.
The U.S. Navy began construction of its first fast battleships in 1937, with the two ships of the North Carolina class. The restrictions of the Washington and London Naval Treaties had imposed a battleship “holiday,” and mandated limits on the size of new warships. Treaty requirements limited displacement to thirty-five thousand tons, and (after Japan’s exit from the treaty triggered an escalator clause) gun size to sixteen inches. While intermediate plans had focused on relatively slow ships (around twenty-three knots), war-game experience and intelligence about the development of foreign ships made clear that this
The P-38 joined the war late, but it quickly became a famous workhorse.
Key point: The P-38 was one heck of a rugged airplane and it actually receded the vaunted P-51. Here is the Lightning s legacy.
Due largely to their use in the postwar U.S. Army Air Forces and present proliferation among the air show community, the North American P-51 Mustang is thought of by many as the most important American fighter of World War II. In reality, however, the P-51 was a relative latecomer to the war, and even though it achieved a remarkable record during the last year of the war in Europe, it was not the fighter that first allowed Allied forces to gain air superiority over the Axis. By the time the redesigned Mustang made its appearance in the skies in Europe in the late winter of 1944, the Allied air forces were already clearing the skies in both Europe and the Pacific of German and Japanese aircraft and were in the process of gaining complete air superiority. This was all due to the twin-bo
A senior at VFMA, Robert Wolfe is a member of the National Honor Society and last spring was the recipient of the Dean of the Academy Medal, given at the end of the school year to cadets who have completed the full four consecutive marking periods - with a gold star in each period, achieved by maintaining at least a 93 percent cumulative grade-point average. Wolfe achieved the Gold Star Honor Roll â students who achieved a general academic average of at least 93 percent with no subject less than 80 percent â during both the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years. A well-rounded student, he has earned Harvey Medals in 2020 for English 2nd Class, Science 2nd Class and Spanish 4.