Our ruling. Paxton told delegates: "At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army, smaller than Portugal’s." The U.S. Army was relatively small at the war’s outset and the ...

At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army … smaller than Portugal’s. And yet we put together a military that fought on two fronts against two great superpowers.

Visually the Portuguese FBP is similar to the German MP40 and American M3 “Grease Gun,” but in fact, the weapon was actually developed from a design that originated before the outbreak of ...