During World War II, the U.S. Navy operated from hundreds of isolated airfields located on atolls in the Pacific. Naval Construction Battalions (Seabees) Seabees recruitment poster.carved these fields with excavators and tractors along on the edge of dense jungle and these heavy equipment operators often had to fight as they built—Japanese holdouts could come barreling out of the tree line at any time to attack them in an effort to disrupt the war effort.
In response, US Navy Capt. Stanley Martyn Haight designed a last line of self-defense for these operators, something they could wear while on the job and have at least a hope of fighting off a close range attacker. His design was a simple single shot pistol affixed to the backhand side of a work glove. The Sedgley Company produced his design and prototype in 1943-1944.
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
