That's an often repeated myth. The fact was that everyone was shooting at everyone anyway camouflage or not. There are no known instances of deadly f...

Are you going to the Ciney Militaria Fair in October? I might be pursuaded bring my Hudson M3A1 down for a quick sale.... No other quick way to ship...

Whats Sun? I think my mom called me that once, right before she kicked me out of the house

Damn Blast Double Damn! I've been trying to get a war-time Leica IIIc for weeks now, last time I was outbid by about a $5, this time the entire li...

Found a small reference to the USMC camo-jumpsmocks in Doughboy to GI, apparently it was the 3rd pattern of smock to be adopted, the 2nd with Camo.Hav...

Another Deac Mosin Nagant M1891/30 with PU-scope & mount, dated 1944

Check out the Coverphoto of Uniforms Illustrated No.18 "US Airborme Forces of World War Two" (Arms and Armour Press,1987). You'll find it ...

Horizontal bar for NCOs, cpl and sgt Vertical bar for all commissioned officers

M1903, M1903A3 or A4?

Of course the Hudson came closest to the real thing, field strips like the real thing too. I've still got my Hudson M3A1 + 3 mags stored in Belgium, c...

There used to be cheap M3A1 springers all over Ebay a few years ago...

So they are, Tarnish. Made myself look like a double idiot there I thought the idea of the Para-Marines never really took off. Rhysd2, one o...

Many of the American pictures came from or were scanned from The US Army Photo Album.