Accessories - Forgotten Weapons

Vietnam’s Overburdened M16

July 1, 2014 Ian McCollum 81

by Tom Laemlein I’ve been working with Dale Dye of Warriors Inc. to put together a photo study on the infantry weapons of the Vietnam War. The conflict in Vietnam is particularly interesting for students […]

MG17 Adapter, and Some Grainy Old Video

June 24, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

First up, you may recall that a while back we had some photos of an MG17 belt-feed adapter salvaged from the wreck of an Me-109. The fellow who owned that piece was hoping to restore […]

XM-2 Personnel Detector

June 18, 2014 Ian McCollum 23

by Tom Laemlein In the rather deadly game of “hide & seek” played by the US Army and the Viet Cong led to a rather bizarre technical innovation during the Vietnam War: the people sniffer. […]

Chain Mail for Machine Gunners

June 4, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

Chain mail appeared in a couple different forms during World War I – the most well-known is probably the mail facemasks developed for tank crews. These were intended to protect crew members from steel shards […]

Vintage Saturday: Everyone Likes Kittens

March 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 32

The lighter side of war – German soldiers in a halftrack playing with a kitten and their MG34 mount (note the periscope optic. Photo from WarAlbum.ru.

Vintage Saturday: Trench Periscope

March 15, 2014 Ian McCollum 31

Japanese Aerial Gunnery Camera

March 9, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

I got an email recently from a producer of a TV program who is looking for a vintage photo of a Japanese aerial gunnery training camera – specifically a Type 89 Rokuoh-Sha: He wants something […]

Vintage Saturday: Mission Critical Equipment

March 8, 2014 Ian McCollum 35

A German WWI pioneer displays (rather sarcastically) the gear he has to carry – complete with wagon, ladder, 2-man saw, naval anchor, axe, sledgehammer, and pipe (click to see the full size version). The more […]

Browning 1919 Experimental Belt Box

March 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 10

About a year ago, I wrote a post about some Browning 1919 feeding devices that were patented but never went into production. Well, reader Alex found photos of one of them in the Springfield Armory […]

¡No Pasarán!

March 6, 2014 Ian McCollum 45

I’ve been doing some reading a researching on the Spanish Civil War in preparation for an upcoming month that will be dedicated to that conflict and the arms involved in it (which include virtually everything […]