CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth.

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The Rock Island Sheriff's Department would have settled for $20,000 for an antique icon made famous by gun-toting gangster movies. But at an auction Sunday in Moline, a model 1921 Thompson submachine ...

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As a result, the mobster rivalries in the bloody 1920s gang wars in Chicago was an uneven battle between mobsters armed with the Tommy gun and the public authorities not having them. “Machine Guns ...

Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...