The Boys rifle saw service with U.S. Marine Raiders during the Makin Island Raid of Aug. 17 and 18, 1942. “Carlson’s Raiders” used their Boys rifles to dispatch two Japanese float planes.

Doughboys of the 80th Division display their war trophies: German body armor, the Mauser Gewehr 98 standard rifle, and the Mauser 13.2 mm T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle. October 5, 1918.

The First World War saw the birth of anti‑tank warfare. German forces used modified field guns, early armor‑piercing ammunition, and eventually the 13mm Tankgewehr rifle to counter the first tanks.

The M3 was the standard anti-tank gun used the U.S. Army at the beginning of World War II. When it was first used in combat in North Africa in late 1942, soldiers learned that it was too light of ...