Masanobu Tsuji was born in the Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan into a poor family. When he was younger, he aspired to become a teacher, but after seeing Japanese Army officers in uniform, he determined to join the military. After failing to enter a...

In 1936, the British Royal Navy attempted to acquire two enlarged and improved versions of the Southampton class light cruisers. The two cruisers would have a main armament of sixteen six-inch guns in four turrets and weigh in at 10,000 tons, which the...

Mutsu was the second of two Nagato-class battleships of the Japanese Navy; her construction was the responsibility of naval architect Commander Hiraga Yuzuru. Under the command of Captain Shizen Komaki, she joined the Sasebo Naval District on 24 Oct...

The initial prototype for what eventually would come to be known as the CZ vzor 38 handgun was made in 1936; it was designed by Frantishek Myshka. On 1 Jun 1938, this double-action-only weapon was approved for manufacture for the Czechoslovakian Army....

Since the end of WW1, the United Kingdom had been the dominant naval power in Western Europe, as she had been historically, blocking vessels of any hostile European power from venturing too far west into the Altantic Ocean. Thus, the greater focus of...