Designed for the trenches of World War I, deadly in the hands of American gangsters, redeemed on the battlefields of World War II. Such is the history of the The M1 Thompson, the first self-described ...
CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — 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.
The Thompson submachine gun is one of the weapons that define the 20th century. In the hands of soldiers and insurgents, police and criminals, it has made its mark from American cities to the jungles ...
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