Here’s What You Need to Know: This German gun had a number of disadvantages on the Eastern Front of World War II. The iconic MP 40 was a German submachine gun designed in the late 1930s that built ...

German arms manufacturers have made many fine submachine guns over the years—the country did essentially invent the platform during World War I with the MP18 and refined it to near perfection with the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Maschinenpistole 40, commonly ...

There are many outstanding firearms developed during World War II, but none combined down-to-basics simplicity with the cost-cutting frugality of the Sten gun. The necessity that mothered this ...

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.

World War II accelerated the shift from bolt-action rifles to semi-automatic and automatic weapons that redefined infantry tactics. Mass production innovations like metal stamping enabled nations to ...