Featured in gangstersBYBlake StilwellJan 28, 2023ShareThis mobster went to Italy to sell weapons to Fascists and left wanting to kill NazisBenjamin “Bugsy” Siegel pulled himself out of poverty by joining a gang headed by immigrant Meyer Lansky. During the Prohibition Era, Lansky and Siegel ran a large bootlegging operation and were influential in Jewish and Italian immigrant crime sy… BYBlake StilwellJan 28, 2023ShareBYBlake StilwellDec 20, 2022ShareThis is why US troops didn’t use drum magazines in Tommy GunsThe World War I-era U.S. Army was unprepared for fighting a global confrontation in the 20th Century. Hell, it was unprepared for any modern confrontation at the turn of the century. As America prepared to enter the Great War, the War Department cal… BYBlake StilwellDec 20, 2022ShareBYRuddy CanoApr 29, 2020Share4 things you didn’t know about the agent who took down Al CaponeU.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson of Chicago, Illinois, was personally tasked by President Hoover to orchestrate the takedown of Al Capone, the gangster of the Windy City who had the law in his pocket. Capone had transformed Chicago into a hive of … BYRuddy CanoApr 29, 2020Share
BYBlake StilwellJan 28, 2023ShareThis mobster went to Italy to sell weapons to Fascists and left wanting to kill NazisBenjamin “Bugsy” Siegel pulled himself out of poverty by joining a gang headed by immigrant Meyer Lansky. During the Prohibition Era, Lansky and Siegel ran a large bootlegging operation and were influential in Jewish and Italian immigrant crime sy… BYBlake StilwellJan 28, 2023Share
BYBlake StilwellDec 20, 2022ShareThis is why US troops didn’t use drum magazines in Tommy GunsThe World War I-era U.S. Army was unprepared for fighting a global confrontation in the 20th Century. Hell, it was unprepared for any modern confrontation at the turn of the century. As America prepared to enter the Great War, the War Department cal… BYBlake StilwellDec 20, 2022Share
BYRuddy CanoApr 29, 2020Share4 things you didn’t know about the agent who took down Al CaponeU.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson of Chicago, Illinois, was personally tasked by President Hoover to orchestrate the takedown of Al Capone, the gangster of the Windy City who had the law in his pocket. Capone had transformed Chicago into a hive of … BYRuddy CanoApr 29, 2020Share