Thompson submachine gun
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The Thompson submachine gun is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun invented and developed by Brigadier General John T. Thompson, a United States Army officer, in 1918. It was designed t
Colt Model 1921A Thompson with a 100-round drum magazine
Brigadier General John T. Thompson holding a Model 1919 Thompson
US Marine holding an M1928 Thompson during the Banana Wars
A British soldier equipped with a Thompson M1928 submachine gun in November 1940
Banana Wars
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The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spani
Thompson submachine gun
…World War I, although early models did not arrive in time for actual combat. The Thompson saw early use by the United States Marine Corps during the Banana Wars, the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Irish Republican Army, the Republic of China, and the FBI following the Kansas City massacre. The…
US Marines with the captured flag of Augusto César Sandino in Nicaragua in 1932
United States Marines with a Haitian guide patrolling the jungle in 1915 during the Battle of Fort Dipitie
William Allen Rogers cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick ideology
American warships off Veracruz in 1914