The eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, for a century now we have worn poppies, lighted lanterns, and recited such solemn lyrics as Flanders’s Field, all honoring the sacred moment when the Great War ended. This November, the Peace Bells on the 11th hour of the 11th day mark the end of the […]
One of the most widely produced rifles in America during World War One was the P14 Enfield and the M1917. Designers based these guns on the same prewar British design and they differed in caliber, .303 and 30’06 respectively. But they, along with the 1903 Springfield became the basis for a series of experimental rifles […]
Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, a U.S. Army officer, developed the light machine gun named after him in the years prior to World War I. Lewis attempted to get his design for a machine gun adopted by the U.S. Army, but failed. General William Crozier, then Chief of Ordnance, usually receives most of the blame for the […]