WW2 Weapons

The World Wars 1914-18 and 1939-45.

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Diary for Sunday, March 26, 1916: Western Front Flanders: British success at Hohenzollern Redoubt Southern Fronts Carnia: Austrians surprise capture Read more
'Barchini Esplosivi'
Diary for Wednesday, March 26, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean: Italian one-man explosive motorboats (barchini esplosivi), launched from destroyers, cripple British Read more
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Diary for Saturday, March 25, 1916: Air War Western Front: First British aircraft (Bristol Scout) with MG interrupter gear arrives Read more
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Diary for Tuesday, March 25, 1941: Politics YUGOSLAVIA SIGNS TRIPARTITE PACT in Vienna, allying herself with the Axis Powers. North Read more
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Diary for Friday, March 24, 1916: Sea War Channel: British Folkestone­-Dieppe ferry Sussex torpedoed by coastal submarine UB29 (Flanders Flotilla) Read more
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Diary for Monday, March 24, 1941: North Africa ROMMEL OPENS HIS FIRST OFFENSIVE in the Western Desert and captures El Read more
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Diary for Thursday, March 23, 1916: Sea War Mediterranean: U35 sinks 13,543t British Transport Minneapolis (12 lives lost) 195 miles Read more
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Diary for Sunday, March 23, 1941: Air War Ju 87 Stukas with fighter escort carry out major raid on Malta: Read more
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Diary for Wenesday, March 22, 1916: Sea War First depth charge submarine kill: Q-ship Farnborough (Campbell) sinks U68 off Southwest Read more
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Diary for Saturday, March 22, 1941: Sea War Atlantic: German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst return to Brest having sunk 22 Read more
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Diary for Friday, March 21, 1941: North Africa Italian garrison of Jarabub, Southern Libya, surrenders to British and Australians after Read more
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Diary for Tuesday, March 21, 1916: Western Front Verdun: German shell Hill 304. French now have 1,294 guns (570 medium Read more
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Diary for Monday, March 20, 1916: Western Front Verdun, West bank: 11th Bavarian Division captures Avocourt Wood and 2,825 French Read more
Kristiansand in March 1941
Diary for Thursday, March 20, 1941: Air War RAF and South African AF bomb Italian positions around Keren (Eritrea). Read more
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Diary for Sunday, March 19, 1916: Eastern Front Galicia: Russian success northwest of Uscieczko bridgehead on river Dniester (until March Read more
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Diary for Wednesday, March 19, 1941: Air War Britain: Heaviest night raid on London since last December. Read more
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Diary for Saturday, March 18, 1916: Eastern Front Western Russia - First Battle of Lake Naroch (until April 14): Record Read more
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Diary for Tuesday, March 18, 1941: East Africa Ethiopian 'Patriot' tribesmen attempt to surround Italian garrison at Debra Marcos. Politics Read more
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Diary for Friday, March 17, 1916: Eastern Front Spring thaw begins unexpect­edly early, but Russian offensive not postponed. Read more
‘Polizia dell Africa Italiana’
Diary for Monday, March 17, 1941: East Africa Italians launch unsuccessful counter-attack in Eritrea. Home Fronts Britain: Jam and marmalade Read more

About WW2 Weapons

WW2 affected virtually almost any corner of the globe. In the six years between 1939 and 1945, some kind of 50 million people lost their lives, and hardly any who survived were not affected. It was the costliest and utmost widespread conflict the world has forever obtained.
It was subsequently battled on ground, sea and in the air with weapons which in fact had first been used in World War One of 1914-18. Ironically, a far greater conflict was to come out from the burning embers of these ‘war to end all wars’, and with it huge innovations in technologies.
The countries engaged in WW2 finally owned the techniques, potential and weapons to fight every other in a much more powerful – and more deadly – manner.

However only Britain, her Empire allies as well as Germany were engaged during the full period (as well as, in fact, Japan and China since 1937). For all the other nations the conflict was of a shorter duration. The US and Japan, for example, were at war from December 1941 to August 1945 (and the USA was at the same time at war with Germany, until Hitler‘s defeat in May 1945).

The state of affairs was so complex, the skeins of partnerships and enmity so connected that it would require a really huge document in fact to illustrate the prospect.
Only one factor was less complicated and widespread to all the nations involved: the nature of the weapons that the soldier used to struggle their way to triumph – or defeat.

Of course, there were differences in detail of the WW2 weapons: the German Panzer V Panther was a very different tank from the US M4 Sherman, the Russian T-34, or the English Cromwell. But in fact they were all much the same – armored vehicles mounting powerful guns running on tracks.

The small arms with which the various opponent countries equipped their armies were totally different weapons in details too, but basically these were all guns for launching projectiles at high speed.
Simply speaking, lots of people would just say that guns are guns, bombs are bombs, aircraft are planes, and so on. But there is definitely even more to it than that, for the abilities to obtain victory or lose a war actually rested on these kinds of WW2 weapons’ qualities, just as a lot of as it did on the fighting abilities of those who employed them and on the strategic sense of those who directed them in their use.

Shermans vs Panthers
Shermans vs Panthers with 3d models.

General about WW2 Weapons:

All information, data, specifications and statistics used on the website WW2 Weapons have been compiled from a variety of sources and the large library of the author – who now lives on Crete for a long time – about military history and history, especially about the world wars, which has been built up over decades.

The most important source references and notes about additional literature can be found at the end for the most articles. To the best of our knowledge and belief, the most secure and reliable information and sources were used, which are also constantly updated and improved.

These data and specifications are used among other things for as accurate as possible historical military simulations, such as the war game WW2 Total. The photos are mostly ‘public domain’, but partly also property of the author.

The author therefore asks for understanding that he can’t handle additional requests for the sources or pictures beyond that due to time constraints and provides the information and its sources to the internet community as ‘as published’, i.e. either the visitor of this website considers it helpful and agrees with it over, or just leaves it.
Discussions and suggestions for improvement are nevertheless welcome and can be held below the respective reports.

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Norman ‘Kretaner’ visits Panzer Museum Munster, Germany.
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