Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...

Tom Hanks famously depicted Captain John Miller in “Saving Private Ryan” toting his trusty Thompson submachine gun — “Tommy gun” — from the beaches of Normandy far into the interior of France in 1944.

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. During World War I, machine guns were ...

ST. LOUIS — Thompson submachine guns are as much a legend as the bad — and good — guys who fired them. With as many colorful nicknames as the gangsters whose rat-a-tat-tats roared through the 1920s, ...

The technology of war is ever-changing. With each new conflict in history, scientists and engineers scramble to develop new ways to defeat the enemy. They have to, since the other side is doing the ...

Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who was awarded a medal “for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service as chief of the small arms division of the office of the chief of ordnance,” was the ...