1911 = WWII?
Love the Garand! I have several buddies who have them, and we all took them to the range on Memorial Day for some Garand action and plugged away in unison! (Turned a lot of heads)
I can’t imagine what it was like in WWII when they had those training ranges set up with hundreds of men firing Garands downrange at the same time (with no hearing protection!)
I wouldn’t include the Browning BAR. While it was a great LMG by WW1 standards, it was outclassed by later LMGs such as the British Bren gun.
Interesting that the lead photo for the article shows a British ‘Tommy’ using a BREN Gun that is not mentioned anywhere in the article.
No mention of the PPsh-41 sub-machine gun or the Mosin-Nagant rifle?
No Mosin-Nagant??? Killed more Germans that the listed Allied weapons combined.
Not a weapon, but a system... The aircraft carrier. Yes it existed and was in combat before WWII, but it was really leveraged and came of age in WWII, especially the Pacific.
In both the anti-tank and anti-aircraft modes ...
Allied tankers lived in fear of this weapon.
What’s “super raid fire”?
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I think the BAR is overrated. The Bren gun was a superior light machine gun.
No Japanese weapons on their list - like excellent and deadly Type 99 Nambu and the extremely effective Type 89 Grenade Projector (”Knee Mortar”).
The Type 89 weighed only 10 pounds and were issued one per squad. It was rifled and threw a one pound round very accurately out to 300 meters and was so lethal that it accounted for an estimated 60% of all of our Pacific war casualties.
On a side note, Call of Duty WWII hits the shelved today.
I’d add the FG-42 to the list.