ARCHIVE DIVE: Every Picture Tells a Story – U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Decades ago, in a quest for imagery to accompany early efforts at providing feature articles to various magazines including Machine Gun News, predecessor to Sma... Read more.
SOME ALLIED AND ENEMY WWII WEAPONS IN POSTERS
Compiled by Robert Bruce, SAR Military Affairs Editor As explored in our two previous online offerings of selected World War motivational posters, we continue t... Read more.
SOME U.S. WWII WEAPONS IN POSTERS
Compiled by Robert Bruce, SAR Military Affairs Editor As explored previously in SAR’s March online offering of selected motivational posters from WWI, it&... Read more.
Some “Great War” Weapons in Posters
Compiled by Robert Bruce, SAR Military Affairs Editor Unfortunately, the word “propaganda” has come to be regarded as something bad; misleading at best and ... Read more.
The Army’s New M17 Modular Handgun System
“We are not talking about nuclear subs or going to the moon here. We are talking about a pistol.”
General Mark Milley, US Army Chief of Staff, complaining ... Read more.
SAR Snapshots: The WWII Australian Owen Submachine Gun
By Robert Bruce, SAR Military Affairs Editor The Aussies have their own way of doing things and Army Private Evelyn Ernest Owen’s clever improvement over ... Read more.
Männer Gegen Panzer (Men Against Tanks): Part I
By Robert Bruce One of the most comprehensive and well-researched magazine features on the WWII German Panzerfaust (“tank fist)” was written by Lesz... Read more.
Männer Gegen Panzer (Men Against Tanks): Part III
By Robert Bruce – Prelude to the Panzerfaust This final installment of the author’s research series into WWII German anti-tank weaponry is again inspire... Read more.
Männer Gegen Panzer (Men Against Tanks): Part II
Part 2—The Panzerschreck in Pictures By Robert Bruce – This second installment of Robert Bruce’s research into WWII German anti-tank weaponry is a... Read more.
“DON’T BE JOE DOPE!” A Tribute to Ordnance Corps Artist Will Eisner
By Robert Bruce Why is Small Arms Review featuring cartoons? Well, while doing military weapons photo research in the National Archives, Robert Bruce stumbled a... Read more.
