Mitchell WerBell

September 14, 2022 by The Tactical Hermit in Armed Citizen Corner, Arms and Ammo, Cold War Era Weapons, Cold War Files, Cold War History, Historical Study, History of Weapons, History Remembered, History Roundup, Know your History, Spycraft, Warfare, Warrior Tech, World War II History, WW2 Era Weapons and tagged Arms and Ammo, Cold War History, Historical Study, Know your History, OSS History, Spycraft, Warfare, Weapons History, WW2 History

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Scattered Shots

By Kurt Allemeier

A veteran of the Office of Strategic Services, master of marketing, soldier of fortune, Mitchell WerBell was subterfuge and conspiracy personified. He is also the designer of the modern silencer with an early company called Sionics.

Mitchell WerBell was a “wheeler dealer” according to some government documents. He was a mercenary at one time and also ran a counter-terrorism training center, giving the world the Cobray.

WerBell served with the Office of Strategic Services in the China-Burma theatre in World War II before becoming an advertising executive. He decided to become a mercenary of another kind in the 1960s, designing silencers and working to topple foreign governments with involvement across the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and Central America. Documents allege WerBell to have been in Dealey Plaza when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and supposedly supplied silencers used by the gunmen in Dallas. That information didn’t come…

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Know Your WW1 Weapons: Germany’s MG08 Heavy Machine Gun

September 12, 2022 by The Tactical Hermit in Armed Citizen Corner, Arms and Ammo, Europe, European History, Firearms History, Historical Study, History of Weapons, History Remembered, History Roundup, Know Your Weapons, Military History, Military Tech, Military Weapons from the Past, Military Weapons History, Weapons & Ammo, World War One, WW1 Era Weapons and tagged Firearms History, German Heavy Machine Guns, Know your History, Know Your Weapons, Military History, Military Weapons History, Weapons and Ammo, WW1 Era Weapons

Germany’s Heavy Machine Gun of WWI: The MG08

All you former infantryman out there might find this fact jaw dropping:

“The MG08 machine gun itself weighed approximately 60 pounds. Combined with its “Sled” (or Sledge) mount that used four legs, the whole affair weighed around 140 pounds, excluding the water can and ammunition supply. Along with the sled mount were extra barrels, tools, and oil containers, all attached to the sled. A team of four soldiers was required to move the entire gun and accessories.”