The Thompson SMG, used by gangsters, lawmen, and WWII troops, has origins tied to the Cutts Compensators and Marine Corps Colonel Victor Bleasdale. The compensator, designed by Richard Cutts Sr.
When the United States entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the country rapidly expanded its military production on a massive scale. Factories that had once built ...
Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...