History
93-Year-Old WWII Vet To Parachute Into Normandy — Again
On a winding road, past a stand of sycamores outside his Ohio home, CBS News found Jim Martin, 70 years after his first trip to France. Jim was one of the first Americans in combat in Europe. “They called us the tip of the spear,” he says. Jim was a private in the 101st Airborne,…
Read MoreMad Jack
The first thing the Nazi garrison on VÃ¥gsøy Island, Norway, would have heard when the British No. 3 Commando battalion landed on December 27, 1941, was the sudden blaring drone of bagpipes. One commando stood at the fore of the landing craft, facing the impending battle and playing the peppy, martial “March of the Cameron…
Read MoreWorld War 2! Tracing The History And Weapons Used
A Look back at some brief World War 2 history World War II (WWII) is the long bloody battle that most believe started when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. However, many argue WWII began with the invasion of Manchuria by Japan on September 18, 1931. Nonetheless, on October 2, 1935, four years before…
Read MoreBlown Away
The term ‘blown away’ has been around for close to 500 years. Blowing from a gun is a method of execution in which the victim is typically tied to the mouth of a cannon and the cannon is fired. George Carter Stent describes the process as follows: The prisoner is generally tied to a gun…
Read MorePuckle Gun
In 1718, James Puckle of London, England, demonstrated his new invention, the “Puckle Gun,” a tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock gun fitted with a multishot revolving cylinder. This weapon fired nine shots per minute at a time when the standard soldier’s musket could be loaded and fired but three times per minute. Puckle demonstrated two versions of…
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