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WEAPONS OF WAR
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ADVANCES IN FIRE POWER
• WORLD WAR 2 SAW THE GREATEST ADVANCES IN HUMAN HISTORY
• BIGGER BETTER FASTER MORE DEADLY WEAPONS
• FROM PROP TO JET• FROM SINGLE SHOT TO RAPID FIRE• FROM BOMB TO NAPALM TO A-BOMB
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TANKSTHE ARMOURED BEASTS OF WAR
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• T-34 medium tank – Perhaps the best overall tank in all of
the War– Most advanced tank design in the world– 6 main variants – Often captured and used by Germans– 85mm guns
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RUSSIAN T-34
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T-34
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RUSSIAN KV-85
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RUSSIAN SU 76
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• Panzer I -A very small light tank (6 tons) out of service by 41’
• Panzer II-Light Tank (10Tons)–Fast recon tank, amphibious with
propeller
–Flammpanzer-flame thrower tank
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• Panzer III-Medium tank (22 Tons)– Main tank 40-42– 37 mm gun– T-34 made it worthless (50 mm)– 15,000 produced
• Panzer IV- Medium Tank (25 Tons)– Short 75mm Gun, 2 machine guns– 9,000 produced– Hitler’s decision not o produce more
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• Tiger-Most famous and most formidable of the war—Heavy tank (55 tons)– 88 mm guns-anti-tank and anti-aircraft– Originally the Panzer VI– Slower than early Panzers– Very Short range due to fuel consumption– UNMATCHED FIRE POWER
• Panther- (Panzer 5) a heavy tank (45 Tons)– Designed to counter the T-34– 75mm gun and 2 machine guns– 4,800 produced Rushed to war untested– Considered best of the German Tanks– First battle was Kursk
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KING TIGER
• HEAVY TANK WITH A 88 MM GUN, BUT WITH ARMOUR PIERCING ABILITY
• COMPLETED IN 1943• 485 PRODUCED, USED IN RUSSIA
AND FRANCE IN 1944• WEIGHED 69 TONS, VERY SLOW
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PANZER I
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PANZER II
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PANZER III
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PANZER IV
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PANTHER
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TIGER
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KING TIGER
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• Cruiser Mk IV
• Crusader II Medium Tank
• Mark VII Churchill
• CRUISER COMET=BEST OVERALL OF BRITISH TANKS
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CHURCHILL TANK
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VALENTINE
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CROMWELL
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CROMWELL
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CRUISER COMET
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• M4 SHERMAN TANK (32 tons) – M4 Sherman tank was a winner by
numbers, not by quality – 30,000 M4 Sherman's versus 600 Tigers
and King Tigers and 1500 Panthers – 75mm or 76mm guns– Many variants of the Sherman for every
possible role
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AMERICAN SHERMAN
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T-28• No conventional turret, giving
it a comparatively low profile
• Top speed of about 8 mph
• 105 mm gun
• 2 were ordered and none saw combat
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Type 89 Otsu
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ARTILLERY&
ANTI-PERSONNEL
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INFAMOUS 88’S
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GERMAN BIG GUNS “ANZIO ANNIES”
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GERMAN INFANTRY WEAPONS
LUGERWALTHER
P38
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Mauser MG34/41 'Spandau’
MP44 'Sturmgewehr'
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MP 40
Schmeisser
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Kar 98k
Gewehr 43
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MP43
FG42
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MG 42
'Burp Gun'
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“STOVEPIPE”
•
Panzerschreck
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ANTI-AIRCRAFT 38
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British Infantry Weapons
Thompson
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Enfield Number 2, Mark I
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Short Magazine Lee Enfield
The Bren Gun
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The Vickers
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AMERICAN INFANTRY WEAPONS
COLT 45
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M3 “GREASEGUN”
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M1A1 -Thompson
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M1903A4 sniper rifle
M1 Rifle (Garand)
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BAR
BLMG
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81 MM MORTAR
BAZOOKA
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Browning M2HB
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M1-M2 FLAMETHROWER
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SOVIET UNION INFANTRY WEAPONS
Nagant revolver PPSh-41
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Mosin-Nagant Model
SVT 40
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DP
SG43
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ANTI-TANK GUNS
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ROKS-2 FLAMETHROWER
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JAPANESE INFANTRY WEAPONS
T-38
NAMBU PISTOL
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T-100
WOODPECKER-T-92
T-98
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VARIOUS ARTILLERY
& ARMOURED VEHICLES OF
THE INFANTRY
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The 25 Pounder Gun (Howitzer)
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DUKW D= 1942
U = Amphibious
K = Front Wheel Drive
W = Rear Wheel Drive
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LVT 1 THE ALLIGATOR LVT 4
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BREN GUN CARRIER
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“JEB”
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WEAPONS OF THE WATER
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MINE PLANTER
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USS SARATOGA
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USS ENTERPRISE
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USS HORNET
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BRITISH SUBMARINE
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USS PENNSYLVANIA
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USS MISSOURI
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BRITISH BATTLESHIP KING GEORGE V
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USS INDIANAPOLIS
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AIR POWER OF
WORLD WAR 2
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GRUMMAN HELLCATCARRIER BASED
Night-Fighter
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Vought F4U CorsairCarrier BasedPacific fighter
Corsairs downed 2,140 enemy planes while only 189 Corsairs were lost – a ratio unmatched in the history of air warfare.
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning high-altitude "pursuit aircraft"
More concentrated firepower than other US fighters
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P-38 LIGHTNINGPacific (twin engine fighter)
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Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
Workhorse of the Allied aerial arsenal right
through 1944
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P-40 WarhawkPlane used by Flying Tigers
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P-40 Tomahawk
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Made up ½ of the Air powerUS had in 1941
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P-47 Thunderbolt“The Jug”
2,000 horsepower
engine
Each wing rested four 50 caliber machine guns
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Tank busterHeavy Fire Power
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P-51 Mustang
Max speed: 437 mph (
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"The day I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up."
Hermann Goering
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P-51 MUSTANGEurope—Dominant propeller air craft
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440 MPH, six 50 caliber machine guns
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Grumman F4F Wildcat
320 MPH, six 50 caliber machine
guns
Pacific Fighter hard to handle
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Vought F4U Corsair
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Became a Marine Plane
Pappy Boyington & the Black Sheep Squadron
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BREWSTER BUFFALOMIDWAY
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• A heavy bomber is a bomber aircraft of the largest size, and typically longest ranges. The term was used primarily prior to and during World War II, when engine power was so scarce that designs had to be carefully tailored to their missions. The heavy bomber was generally considered to be any design that delivered 8,000 lb (4 t) of bombs or more on distant targets, with medium bombers having loads of 4,000 to 8,000 lb (2 to 4 t), and light bombers 2,000 to 4,000 lb (1 to 2 t). These distinctions were already disappearing by the middle of WWII, when the average fighter aircraft could now carry a 2,000 lb (1 t) load and the "light" designs had now largely taken over the missions formerly filled by mediums.
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MESSERSCHMITT BF 110
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FOCKE-WULF FW 190
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87 STUKA
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ME 262 A (very limited use)
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MESSERSCHMITT BF 109
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BRITISH SPITFIREBattle of Britain
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HAWKER HURRICANE
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B-24 LIBERATOR
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JAPANESE ZERO
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FG-1D COSAIR
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F4F WILDCAT (Marine Plane)
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Top speed 295 MPH, 17,600 lb. bomb load, twelve .50 caliber
machine guns
B-17 FLYING FORTRESS
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MEMPHIS BELLE
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B 29 SUPER FLYING FORTRESS
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The most expensive military project of World
War Two
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P-61 BLACK WIDOW1ST WITH RADAR-PACIFIC AND
EUROPE
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B-25 MITCHELL
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F6F HELLCAT ¾ of air kills in the Pacific Theatre
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Curtiss SB2C Helldiverresponsible for the destruction of more Japanese
targets than any other aircraft
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Heinkel He 111
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DORNIER 217
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TBF/TBM Avenger
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