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Some 75 years ago this week, on 7 Febuary 1951, the well-mustachioed Captain Lewis L. “Red” Millett and the “Wolfhound” Infantrymen of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, conducted the last full-unit bayonet charge in U.S. Army histor...


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Spent a down weekend unwinding from SHOT Show, taking the old lady to the Pensacola art fair, etc. In this, I was able to score a $30 box loaded with second-hand volumes at Open Books that must have formerly belonged to a NAS Pensacola instructor, judging from the eclectic subject matter...


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With a story that runs nearly the entire length of the 20th Century, the iconic top-break British Webley in .455 Caliber Eley is a beast.

My personal interest in the Webley, specifically the bonkers-large Mark VI, which entered service with a 6-inch barrel standard, dates to watching old war movies and TV shows as a kid in the 1970s and 80s, and there were pl...


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With all of these polar vortices and bombs recently (I mean, we just had like 11 days in a row that hit below freezing on the Mississippi Gulf Coast), these images from roughly 107 years ago seemed appropriate.

Take a look at this photo, know it is in Northern Russia, February 1919, and ask yourself the nationality of the snow-camo-ed troopers masking themselves among ...


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If you got to enjoy the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics over the weekend, you were sure to catch some uniforms familiar to military history buffs and American personnel who have been stationed in Italy at any time in the past 80 years.

Task Force Olimpica, organized to support the games across eight different complexes, includes 1,928 active duty It...


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