WEAPONS OF WAR

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

TANKSTHE ARMOURED BEASTS OF WAR

• 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

RUSSIAN T-34

T-34

RUSSIAN KV-85

RUSSIAN SU 76

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

PANZER I

PANZER II

PANZER III

PANZER IV

PANTHER

TIGER

KING TIGER

• Cruiser Mk IV

• Crusader II Medium Tank

• Mark VII Churchill

• CRUISER COMET=BEST OVERALL OF BRITISH TANKS

CHURCHILL TANK

VALENTINE

CROMWELL

CROMWELL

CRUISER COMET

• 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

AMERICAN SHERMAN

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

Type 89 Otsu

ARTILLERY&

ANTI-PERSONNEL

INFAMOUS 88’S

GERMAN BIG GUNS “ANZIO ANNIES”

GERMAN INFANTRY WEAPONS

LUGERWALTHER

P38

    Mauser MG34/41 'Spandau’

MP44 'Sturmgewehr'

MP 40

Schmeisser

Kar 98k

Gewehr 43

MP43

FG42

MG 42

'Burp Gun'

“STOVEPIPE”

•

Panzerschreck

ANTI-AIRCRAFT 38

British Infantry Weapons

Thompson

Enfield Number 2, Mark I

Short Magazine Lee Enfield

The Bren Gun

The Vickers

AMERICAN INFANTRY WEAPONS

COLT 45

M3 “GREASEGUN”

M1A1 -Thompson

M1903A4 sniper rifle

M1 Rifle (Garand)

BAR

BLMG

81 MM MORTAR

BAZOOKA

Browning M2HB

M1-M2 FLAMETHROWER

SOVIET UNION INFANTRY WEAPONS

Nagant revolver PPSh-41

Mosin-Nagant Model

SVT 40

DP

SG43

ANTI-TANK GUNS

ROKS-2 FLAMETHROWER

JAPANESE INFANTRY WEAPONS

T-38

NAMBU PISTOL

T-100

WOODPECKER-T-92

T-98

VARIOUS ARTILLERY

& ARMOURED VEHICLES OF

THE INFANTRY

The 25 Pounder Gun (Howitzer)

DUKW D= 1942

U = Amphibious

K = Front Wheel Drive

W = Rear Wheel Drive

LVT 1 THE ALLIGATOR LVT 4

BREN GUN CARRIER

“JEB”

WEAPONS OF THE WATER

MINE PLANTER

USS SARATOGA

USS ENTERPRISE

USS HORNET

BRITISH SUBMARINE

USS PENNSYLVANIA

USS MISSOURI

BRITISH BATTLESHIP KING GEORGE V

USS INDIANAPOLIS

AIR POWER OF

WORLD WAR 2

GRUMMAN HELLCATCARRIER BASED

Night-Fighter

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.

Lockheed P-38 Lightning high-altitude "pursuit aircraft"

More concentrated firepower than other US fighters

P-38 LIGHTNINGPacific (twin engine fighter)

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

Workhorse of the Allied aerial arsenal right

through 1944

P-40 WarhawkPlane used by Flying Tigers

P-40 Tomahawk

Made up ½ of the Air powerUS had in 1941

P-47 Thunderbolt“The Jug”

2,000 horsepower

engine

Each wing rested four 50 caliber machine guns

Tank busterHeavy Fire Power

P-51 Mustang

Max speed: 437 mph (

"The day I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up."

Hermann Goering

P-51 MUSTANGEurope—Dominant propeller air craft

440 MPH, six 50 caliber machine guns

Grumman F4F Wildcat

320 MPH, six 50 caliber machine

guns

Pacific Fighter hard to handle

Vought F4U Corsair

Became a Marine Plane

Pappy Boyington & the Black Sheep Squadron

BREWSTER BUFFALOMIDWAY

• 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.

MESSERSCHMITT BF 110

FOCKE-WULF FW 190

87 STUKA

ME 262 A (very limited use)

MESSERSCHMITT BF 109

BRITISH SPITFIREBattle of Britain

HAWKER HURRICANE

B-24 LIBERATOR

JAPANESE ZERO

FG-1D COSAIR

F4F WILDCAT (Marine Plane)

Top speed 295 MPH, 17,600 lb. bomb load, twelve .50 caliber

machine guns

B-17 FLYING FORTRESS

MEMPHIS BELLE

B 29 SUPER FLYING FORTRESS

The most expensive military project of World

War Two

P-61 BLACK WIDOW1ST WITH RADAR-PACIFIC AND

EUROPE

B-25 MITCHELL

F6F HELLCAT ¾ of air kills in the Pacific Theatre

Curtiss SB2C Helldiverresponsible for the destruction of more Japanese

targets than any other aircraft

Heinkel He 111

DORNIER 217

TBF/TBM Avenger