From Gangsters to GIs: The Real Story of the Thompson “Tommy Gun” скачать в хорошем качестве

From Gangsters to GIs: The Real Story of the Thompson “Tommy Gun”

Most people meet the Thompson “Tommy Gun” in black-and-white gangster films, firing from car windows and alleyways. But for the men who carried it in World War II and Korea, the Thompson was something much more practical: a heavy, close-range tool in a world still ruled by rifles and machine guns. This episode follows the Thompson from its failed debut as a “trench broom”, through its Prohibition-era notoriety, into the hands of Marines, Rangers, paratroopers and other soldiers who used it in jungles, cities, and hedgerows. We examine how it really handled in combat, how the simplified wartime models changed the gun, and how veterans later remembered its weight, power, and place in their kit. Some historical photographs and film clips in this video come from Wikimedia Commons, the U.S. National Archives, the Library of Congress, the Imperial War Museum, and similar collections that provide public-domain or no-known-copyright-restriction material, as well as museum object photos released on equivalent terms. FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain brief quoted text, images, or audio used for the purposes of commentary, criticism, teaching, and research. Such use is transformative and is believed to fall under the fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law (17 U.S.C. §107). #Thompson #TommyGun #WWIIHistory #IconicWeapons