Tag WarCommons Sitrep – Arms & Equipment

A famous memoir, a nickname that stuck, and crew survival data that tells a more complicated story. The first entry in our WW2 Myths series. This is Part 1 of World War II Myths, an occasional WarCommons series where we…

It began when a gale tore barrage balloons loose and blew them over Sweden. Two years later, Britain was launching nearly 100,000 of them at Germany on purpose. After writing about Britain’s Operation Vegetarian, I couldn’t help wondering: what other…

The BM-13 Multiple Rocket Launcher. The what? That’s right, many people have no idea what this is until the name “Katyusha” comes up. It’s the Red Army’s Katyusha rocket launcher. Nicknamed the “Stalin Organ,” it was the worst nightmare for…

World War II saw many innovations in the field of warfare and military equipment, especially when compared to World War I. This sometimes raises questions that remain under-explored to this day within the context of World War II. Sometimes things…