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# WW2 Weapons: The World Wars 1914-18 and 1939-45

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## Posts
- [Diary July 7, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-july-7-1916/): Diary for Friday, July 7, 1916:
- [Waffen-SS divisions 7-12](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/waffen-ss-divisions-7-12/): Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 7 (Prinz Eugen) - 12 (Hitlerjugend).
- [Diary July 6, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-july-6-1916/): Diary for Thurday, July 6, 1916:
- [Me 110](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/me-110/): In the D-series, the heavy front armament of two automatic cannons and four machine guns was retained. In June 1941, the Me 110D-2 equipped the SKG 210 (Schnellkampfgeschwader 210) of the II Air Corps of Luftflotte 2 on the Eastern Front. These aircraft were used for high-speed bombing attacks on ground targets and airfields far into enemy airspace. In this new role they were successful and their heavy armament from automatic cannons also made them relatively successful tank destroyers.
- [Diary July 5, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-july-5-1916/): Diary for July 5, 1916:
- [Battleship Kaiser in WoWs](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/battleship-kaiser-in-wows/): Germany’s battleships during World War I were primarily part of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) and are often divided into two main categories: pre-dreadnoughts and dreadnoughts.
- [Diary July 4, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-july-4-1916/): Diary for Tuesday, July 4, 1916:
- [German Orders of Battle – Battle of France](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/german-orders-of-battle-battle-of-france/): The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was a major military campaign that took place in May and June of 1940 during World War II.
- [Diary July 3, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-july-3-1916/): Diary for Monday, July 3, 1916:
- [How the Slot Machine Went From Wartime Military Clubs to the Foundation of the Modern Online Casino](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/how-the-slot-machine-went-from-wartime-military-clubs-to-the-foundation-of-the-modern-online-casino/): The slot machine's journey from a novelty mechanical device to the dominant format in online casino gaming runs directly through the military clubs and overseas bases of World War II. This is how wartime exposure introduced slot machines to an entire generation of players, and how that cultural moment shaped the casino industry.
- [The Last Japanese Soldiers to Surrender After the Second World War](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/the-last-japanese-soldiers-to-surrender-after-the-second-world-war/): The Last Japanese Soldiers to Surrender After the Second World War: A Historical Overview.
- [Diary July 2, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-july-2-1916/): Diary for Sunday, July 2, 1916:
- [Performance on the Western Front](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/performance-on-the-western-front/): German military performance against the Western Allies in France and on the German frontier in 1944.
- [Diary July 1, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-july-1-1916/): Diary for Saturday, July 1, 1916:
- [09-Warships in Norway](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/warships-in-norway/): Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper and other warships in Norway.
- [Diary June 30, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-30-1916/): Diary for Friday, June 30, 1916:
- [Tiger tank](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/tiger-tank/): The order to design the VK4501 (H), later known as Tiger tank, was issued on 26 May 1941. Henschel und Sohn, of Kassel, were to develop the chassis. Krupp was to develop the turret for both the VK4501 (H) and the VK4501 (P). Rheinmetall also developed a turret for the VK4501 (H) to mount the 7.5 cm KwK L/70, but it never advanced beyond the prototype stage. Lessons learned in the development of the VK3001 and VK3601 were beneficently applied to the design of the VK4501 (H). Production was planned to start in July 1942, with 285 to be completed by 12 May 1943, in time for the proposed the summer offensive of this year.
- [Diary June 29, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-29-1916/): Diary for Thursday, June 29, 1916:
- [Waffen-SS divisions 33-38](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/waffen-ss-divisions-33-38/): Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 33 (3rd Hungarian) - 38 (Nibelungen).
- [Diary June 28, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-28-1916/): Diary for Wednesday, June 28, 1916:
- [Operation Silver Fox 1941: Murmansk And Petsamo](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/operation-silver-fox-1941/): Operation Silver Fox from 1941 was a major World War II campaign. This combined German-Finnish offensive launched in the summer of 1941. It aimed to seize Murmansk and the Petsamo nickel mines.
- [Diary June 27, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-27-1916/): Diary for Tuesday, June 27, 1916:
- [Battle in the Leyte Gulf](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/battle-in-the-leyte-gulf/): US Invasion of Leyte and the Naval Battle in the Leyte Gulf in 1944: A Turning Point in the Pacific War.
- [Diary June 26, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-26-1916/): Diary for Monday, June 26, 1916:
- [LSSAH Campaigns](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/lssah-campaigns/): back to PART I: Designations, Commanders, Creation, Organization, Particularities and the End of LSSAH
- [Diary June 25, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-25-1916/): Diary for Sunday, June 25, 1916:
- [Organization German Artillery 1914-18](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/organization-german-artillery-1914-18/): Here to Part I: Organization German Army and infantry 1914-18.
- [Diary June 24, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-24-1916/): Diary for Saturday, June 24, 1916:
- [Diary June 23, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-23-1916/): Diary for Friday, June 23, 1916:
- [Pe-2](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/pe-2/): The Petlyakov Pe-2 and Pe-3 were Soviet twin-engine aircraft developed during World War II, both stemming from the same design lineage.
- [Diary June 22, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-22-1916/): Diary for Thursday, June 22, 1916:
- [American Civil War](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/american-civil-war/): The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 was the most devastating war ever fought on American soil. The losses exceeded even those suffered by the USA in the First or Second World Wars.
- [Diary June 21, 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/diary-june-21-1916/): Diary for Wednesday, June 21, 1916:

## Pages
- [Latest Posts](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/latest-posts/)
- [Affiliate Disclosure](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/affiliate-disclosure/)
- [WW2 Weapons](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/): 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.
- [Year 1919](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/war-diary/year-1919/): The Great War took longer to end by treaty than the fight­ing itself. Not until 23 August 1923 did the Allied occupa­tion forces evacuate Constantinople in conformity with the definitive Turkish peace treaty, signed at Lausanne a month earlier. Their military occupation of the former Ottoman imperial capital and its strategic straits had lasted 4 3/4 years. It had almost led to a new war in the autumn of 1922 (Chanak Crisis) when Mustapha Kemal's triumphant Turkish Nationalists, after their decisive eviction of the Greeks from Asia Minor, confronted British troops. The war scare was enough to clinch the fall of Lloyd George's wartime coalition government.
- [Year 1943](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/war-diary/year-1943/): Germany's plans and hopes for the year 1943 after the Stalingrad disaster.
- [Year 1918](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/war-diary/year-1918/): After prolonged discussion and disagreement, Ludendorff rather belatedly reached a decision to direct the main weight of his grand offensive on the British-held St Quentin (Somme) sector (code name 'Operation Michael'). The aim was to drive west between Peronne and Arras towards the Channel coast. 'If this blow succeeded, the strategic result might indeed be enormous, as we should separate the bulk of the English army from the French and crowd it up with its back to the sea...' (My War Memories 1914-1918 by Erich Ludendorff).
- [Sitemap](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/sitemap/): Sitemap of WW2-Weapons with the most important content pages and latest reports:
- [Year 1917](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/war-diary/year-1917/): During this 'Year of Agony', that in so many ways began the modern world as we know it, Russia discarded absolute monarchy, underwent two revolutions and submitted meekly to an Austro-German 'peace' Diktat. Britain's Army was bled white in Flanders and U-boats slaughtered her merchant sailors; the French Army was rent by mutiny and defeatism; Germany suffered increasingly severe shortages, sparking off food riots and acts of disobedience in the blockaded fleet; Austria experienced near-famine and serious unrest among her subject nationalities; worst of all Italy sustained a near-fatal blow in the field. In East Africa, Germany's last colony was lost but the indefatigable Lettow-Vorbeck took his surviving troops into Portuguese Mozambique, prolonging this side-show by a year.
- [Year 1942](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/war-diary/year-1942/): The year 1942 is characterized by the entry of the USA into WW2.
- [Year 1940](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/war-diary/year-1940/): The year 1940 is marked by the Western campaign, the classic 'Blitzkrieg' (lightning War).
- [Aircrafts 1914-18](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/weapons-1914-18/aircrafts-1914-18/): Aircraft of World War One 1914-18 B.E.2 British reconnaissance, bomber, night-fighter and training aircraft Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and 3D model. Royal Read more Austro-Hungarian aircraft in World War I Are you fascinated by aviation history? Then take a look at the aircraft used by the Austro-Hungarian armed forces in Read more F.E.2 British two-seater fighter Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2 from World War One. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and model. Royal Aircraft Read more Sopwith Camel Sopwith Camel - famous British fighter plane of World War One. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and 3d model. British Read more Sikorsky IIya Mouromets Sikorsky Ilya Mouromets, Russian heavy bomber from the First World War and the first four-engined aircraft in history. History, development, Read more Airco DH2 British first true single-seat fighting scout Airco de Havilland 2. History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures, and model. First British Read more Nieuport 11 French scout and single-seat fighter Nieuport 11 and 16 'Bebe'. History, development, service, specifications, statistics and pictures. Nieuport 11, 16 Read more Fokker Eindecker German Fokker E monoplane from World War One. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and 3d model. Fokker E.I - E.IV Read more Albatros B German two-seat reconnaissance planes Albatros B types of World War One. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and model. German Two-seat Read more Martinsyde G.100 Elephant British long-range escort fighter Martinsyde G.100 and G.102 'Elephant'. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and model. Martinsyde G.100 and G.102 Read more Caudron G French Caudron G series of two-seater reconnaissance bombers of World War One. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and model. French Read more A Hansa-Brandenburg reconnaissance aircraft of the Austro-Hungarian army.About 19 out of 20 aerial sorties flown during the entire World War One were reconnaissance missions. There is no doubt that such missions played an increasingly important role during this war. Nevertheless, there was considerable resistance to the introduction of airplanes by the military before the beginning of the war. The military aviation was still in the infancy in 1914 and many of the responsible generals doubted about their value. There were also comparatively few airplanes existing in 1914. The air forces of the leading nations had only recently been established and older generals had little idea of what they were to be used for. Traditionally, the cavalry was regarded as the eye of the army, but the first aircraft had already proved their worth in the reconnaissance role. Thus, shortly after the outbreak of World War One, a German Taube monoplane already played an important role during the Battle of Tannenberg on the Eastern Front in August 1914, when it watched the Russian troop movements. Such aircraft were quickly becoming indispensable, especially after the start of the trench war, what the cavalry along the Western Front condemned to immobility. After that, reconnaissance aircraft were deemed to be so important that special fighter aircraft were developed to shoot them down or protect them. The aircraft also became more and more advanced. After the reports of the first reconnaissance planes were handed over by the crew, or when handwritten messages were thrown down with weights, there came soon immediate messages by built-in, smaller radios and photo cameras for the picturing of the enemy positions and lines of communications. Later models had built-in cameras in the fuselage and were freed from any superfluous weight - even armament - to fly higher and faster. Soon aircraft were omnipresent on every front, and more than half of the 80 kills of the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen were reconnaissance aircraft. The first aircraft were not more than so much as possible stable aircraft platforms, and they did not have to be particularly fast or maneuverable, since there were very few dangers in the sky. Only the more and more armed airplanes from the end of 1914 and the specially developed fighter aircraft ended these 'peaceful' times over the ground battlefields. At the same time, the larger aircraft, especially the original reconnaissance aircraft, were able to attack enemy troops or even entire cities with the first bombs.
- [Battles](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/battles/): At this page, various interesting strategic decisions, campaigns and individual battles are investigated more closely, which had a more or less great influence on the course of WW2.
- [Year 1944](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/war-diary/year-1944/): At the beginning of 1944 the strategic ring around Germany was closed since a long time. The final victory over Soviet Russia had become quite illusory, and it was rather in the Ukraine, now near the Romanian and Polish frontier, and in front of Leningrad in the Baltic States, that the eastern cheek of the pincers was increasingly concentrated in the center of the 'Fortress Europe'.
- [Military Production](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/military-production/): Modern wars have been - at least since the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) - neither been decided by the better warrior or soldier, nor by the tactical or strategic genius of a Napoleon (probably the last one in this series with this privilege), Frederick the Great, Charles XII, Wallenstein, Caesar, Hannibal, or Alexander the Great, but by considerable material and numerical superiority on the battlefield and reserves.
- [WW2 Total](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/war-games/ww2-total/): War Game WW2 Total
- [World War One](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/): But in the early summer of 1914 relations between the great European powers were so tense that the killing of the archduke by a Bosnian student, named Gavrilo Princip, led to the outbreak of World War One through a series of quick and irreversible steps - the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia on 23rd July, her declaration of war on 28th July, Russian mobilization, Ger­many's declaration of war on Russia on 1st August, and on France on 3rd August, and Great Britain's declaration of war against Germany on 4th August.
- [War Games](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/war-games/): Strategy, Tactical and First-Person-Shooter War Games with focus on World War.
- [Year 1945](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/war-diary/year-1945/): The Allies at the outset of 1945 thought to collapse Germany that year. It had been their anticipation that the Wehrmacht would carry on and struggle ferociously on the defensive, particularly since it was the German homeland which was becoming invaded, but there was clearly belief in success.
- [Armies of World War One](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/armies-1914-18/): However nowadays World War One is usually considered because of its mindless massacre of young men, sent out to die in their 1000s by silly­-looking ancient leaders with walrus mustaches, it turned out indeed a lot more interesting and also important than just that. It dramatically changed the entire idea of warfare, in which not just the military, however the entire nation­ - its technology, research, as well as spirits - had been put to the supreme test. Neither did World War One truly close with the last shot, because in its aftermath it delivered social and political turbulence on a really remarkable size, that in several ways we are even now awareness its consequences presently.
- [Year 1939](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/war-diary/year-1939/): In a today infamous broadcast on September 28, 1938, Chamberlain reported: 'How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.'
- [War Diary World War One](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/war-diary/): War Diary of World War One starting from 1914.
- [Weapons World War One](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/weapons-1914-18/): World War One had been the turning point in weapons systems. The disasters of trench combat delivered modern forms of fighting conflicts and fresh weapons with which to eliminate the adversary. World War One had been amongst the most hazardous clashes in military history. This size of human elimination had never been come across earlier - in excess of Fourteen million military and civilians died, along with an additional Twenty one million soldiers had been injured during the 4 years of stagnant trench battles and in unsuccessful offensives.
- [Year 1941](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/war-diary/year-1941/): Of particular concern makes Hitler in early 1941 the close distance of the British air bases in Greece to the oil fields in Romanian. Until the failed Italian attack on Greece and the following build-up of British troops on Crete at the end of October 1940 this - for Germany vital area - was beyond the reach of enemy aircraft. Now the British could bomb Ploesti at any time. That would be a disaster for Germany.
- [Year 1916](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/war-diary/year-1916/): The overrunning of Serbia by Central Powers forces (in­cluding Bulgarians), the evacuation of Gallipoli and the siege of Kut in Mesopotamia blighted many of the pet schemes of the 'Easterners'. Once again, Allied plans for 'decisive offensives' on the Western Front received top priority. Massive Anglo-French combined operations were scheduled for spring 1916. But Falkenhayn struck first at Verdun on a quiet sector of the front.
- [WW2 War Diary](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/war-diary/): WW2 War Diary, the day-by-day chronology of World War2.
- [History](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/): Battles, Military Production and Personages of WW2.
- [Armies](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/armed-forces/): Strength, Organization, Orders of Battle, Weapons, Equipment of WW2 Armies.
- [Weaponry](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/armed-forces/weapons/): Weaponry of WW2 is the online source about the tanks, guns, artillery, fighter and bomber planes as well as warships of the Allies and the Axis powers during World War II. The weapon systems from Germany, US, Britain, Russia, Japan, Italy and other nations will be found details about their history, specifications, pictures and a 3D model.
- [Fighter planes](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/armed-forces/weapons/fighter-planes/): At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor the US Army Air Force had 3,305 aircraft, while the US Navy had about 3,000 aircraft ready. The entry of WW2 led to an entirely new rhythm of production and numbers alone are enough to give an idea of the incredible progress that was made. In 1942 a total of 10,769 fighter planes were built. In 1943 a total of 23,988 fighters and in 1944 a total of 38,873 fighters were built. In 1945 a total of 21,696 fighters came off the assembly line. And quality was not sacrificed to quantity.
- [Bombers](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/armed-forces/weapons/bomber-planes/): History, Specifications, Pictures and 3D models of US, British, Russian, German and Japanese bombers.
- [Tanks](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/armed-forces/weapons/tanks/): History, specifications and pictures of tanks and AFVs of Germany, U.S.A, Britain, Russia (USSR), Japan, Italy and other nations in World War II.
- [Pictures WW2](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/pictures/): Never before published WW2 pictures: the photographs were taken from the grandfather of the author of this website in Germany, during the sea transports, in Norway, Estonia and Poland while serving in the German Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1945.
- [Warships](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/armed-forces/weapons/warships/): History, specifications and pictures of US, British, Russian, Japanese, German and Italian warships of WW2.
- [Artillery](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/armed-forces/weapons/artillery/): History, specifications and pictures of British, US, Russian, German and Italian artillery guns of WW2.
- [Infantry](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/history/armed-forces/weapons/infantry-weapons/): These types of weapons offered the infantryman a significantly improved firepower ability, however it wasn't prior to the real assault rifles appeared from around 1943 onwards that the complete massive step coming from the steady but very slow single shots of the bolt-action firearm to the full automatic fire of the assault rifle was completely recognized. The bolt-action guns were generally good and reputable firearms, however they were missing the shock effect of an assault gun fired in the fully automatic mode.
- [Year 1915](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/war-diary/year-1915/): Both sides made attempts to break through the Western Front but to little effect despite huge casualties. Not even the German chlorine and phosgene poison gas-cloud attacks (April and December) achieved any decisive result. British operations continued to be gravely hampered by lack of high-explosive shells and heavy guns. During the first winter of trench warfare (1914-15) BEF C-in-C Sir John French had repeatedly asked for more shells and vast increases in high-explosive output. He was told that he must economize. In spring 1915, the British guns were, with few exceptions, rationed to four shells per gun per day ('not to be used unless necessary'!). Hand grenades were improvised from discarded bully beef and jam cans. War Minister Kitchener, when pressed by Prime Minister Asquith, denied that there was a shell shortage. But Colonel Charles Repington, military correspondent of The Times, after returning from the front, revealed that the British attacks at Festubert (April) had failed almost entirely because of lack of HE projectiles to dislodge the Germans from their strong points.
- [Year 1914](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/war-diary/year-1914/): Battle of the Marne and Tannenberg
- [Road to War](https://www.ww2-weapons.com/world-war-one/history-1914-18/): If the Great War of 1914-18 had any single root cause it surely was the desire of the French Army and Nation to avenge the humiliations of the Franco-Prussian or Franco-­German War of 1870-71. Aware that France would never acquiesce to the unification of Germany under a Prussian King (or the appalling prospect of a German prince on the vacant Spanish throne), the 'Iron Chancellor' , Otto von Bismarck, maneuvered the inscrutable (but weak and vacil­lating) French Emperor, Napoleon III, into declaring war (19 July 1870).

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