In the 1200s it protected Scotland from Vikings. During World War 2 it became a lookout tower and was fitted with anti-aircraft guns. Four bombs were dropped around the castle by German aircraft ...

50 calibre heavy machine guns, mounted on farm trailers towed by ... are all that separates them from Second World War infantry fighting off German Stuka bombers. Their weapon is, essentially ...

Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, one of World War II’s most decorated Marines, received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross ...

In four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest ... period and 55,000 antiaircraft guns. In an attempt to coordinate government war agencies Roosevelt created the ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship ... is mounted measures 3.2 meters in diameter.