When America first entered the war, they used the M1, which was eventually replaced by the M1A1, which itself ... flamethrower's fuel tank. The Thompson submachine gun (or Tommy Gun) gets all ...

The M1 Flamethrower and its M1A1 saw the most use in the Pacific ... Suffice it to say that the reputation of the Thompson submachine gun precedes itself. First popularized by Prohibition-era ...

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But few know the origin of the gun’s catchy nickname. “To most U.S. cineaddicts the Thompson submachine gun is a gangster’s weapon,” Time magazine observed on June 26, 1939. “The late ...

But few know the origin of the gun’s catchy nickname. “To most U.S. cineaddicts the Thompson submachine gun is a gangster’s weapon,” Time magazine observed on June 26, 1939. “The late ...

and later M1 and M1A1 Thompson submachine guns were easier and less-expensive to produce. Watch our "American Rifleman Television" I Have This Old Gun segment above to see the M1 Thompson in ...

Supply soldiers, vehicle drivers, NCOs, officers, and any other soldier who didn’t need or want to carry the full-sized M1 battle rifle had limited options aside from the 1911 or the expensive and ...

and M1A1. Over 1.5 million Thompsons were produced during the war. A soldier of Russia’s 2nd “LNR” Army Corps holding a Thompson submachine gun. Photo from social media, via Militarnyi This iconic ...

though they did not work with the early M1A1 version. The first model was built and ready for battle by 1921. A prototype belt-fed version of the Thompson submachine gun was worked on, but the ...

The Thompson submachine gun, also known as the “Tommy Gun ... of which 1,387,134 were the more straightforward M1 and M1A1 versions (without the Blish lock and oiling system).

The gun was five percent lighter than the Thompson and about 95 percent more reliable in mud and dust tests. The M2 was also quicker and easier to produce. The Army and Marine Corps needed lots of ...