At first glance, the Bren looked wrong. Top-mounted magazine. Awkward profile. Slower rate of fire than its German rivals.

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On the morning of April 20th, 1918, amidst the grim realities of World War I, a squadron of British Royal Air Force Sopwith Camel fighters readied themselves for a daring assault. Their target: German ...

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Jun. 6—It was the noise that John Shelby remembered most vividly, the whine and roar of aircraft engines, the thunderous boom of big guns from destroyers, the mechanized rattle of German machine guns, ...