38 Colt revolver’s battlefield inadequacies. Thompson later supervised development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and was in charge of the board that selected the. But thanks to Thompson’s personal shepherding, Lieutenant John Parker’s “informal” Gatling gun unit had 15 weapons and supplies of ammunition, in time to play a significant role in the San Juan charge.
This was when other Army logistics were so bollixed up that the only horse in Teddy Roosevelt’s Roughrider “cavalry” unit for the charge up San Juan Hill was Roosevelt’s mount. He was chief ordnance officer for the campaign in Cuba and saw to it that 18,000 tons of munitions were where they needed to be, on time and without incident. Thompson had a distinguished career with the Army Ordnance Department. When it did, it rode that second wave straight into our history books.Īlthough his name is forever tied to the Thompson submachine gun, Brigadier General John T. The Thompson submachine gun was largely a creation of its time, and like many salient developments, it missed the first rising tide: the Tommy gun had to wait for its time to come.
0 kommentar(er)
