Photos of World War II Weapons | World War II Database

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US Marines wading through water, Peleliu, Palau, Sep 1944	USS Bennington steaming out of New York Harbor en route Norfolk, Virginia, 25 Sep 1944. This photo was taken from an airship with Squadron ZP-12 stationed at Lakehurst, New Jersey.	Polish resistance fighter surrendering from his position in the sewers, Mokotów District, Warsaw, Poland, 27 Sep 1944, photo 1 of 2	Canadian Chevrolet CMP Field Artillery Tractor pulling a QF 25-pounder howitzer with limber after landing in the South of France, Sep-Oct 1944. Note LST-551 among other LSTs.

F6F-5 Hellcats of Air Group 11, the “Sundowners,” warm up on the deck of USS Hornet (Essex-class) in the Philippine Sea, late 1944	Finnish soldiers with German-made Panzerschreck weapon, Finland, Oct 1944	German Großdeutschland Division troops on a road at Memel, East Prussia, Germany, Oct 1944; note Panzerfäuste, Kar98k rifles, and grenades	German Großdeutschland Division troops with Panzerfaust at Memel, East Prussia, Germany, late 1944; note grenades in belts

German SS troops in a barracks in Budapest, Hungary, Oct 1944; note Panzerfaust and other weapons	German Volkssturm personnel practicing with a Panzerschreck weapon against an obsolete German Grosstraktor experimental tank, Germany, Oct 1944	Hungarian Arrow Cross personnel with a 40mm MAWAG anti-tank gun M1940, Budapest, Hungary, Oct 1944; note 43M rifles and Tiger II tank of German 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion in background	Men of German 4th Parachute Division with Panzerschreck launchers, Poland, Oct 1944

Personnel of the German Grossdeutschland brigade showing a Panzerschreck weapon to a child from a village near the location of their field exercise, Germany, Oct 1944	Polish resistance fighters Henryk Ozarek (with Vis pistol) and Tadeusz Przybyszewski (with Blyskawica submachine gun) of Anna Company of Gustaw Battalion fighting on Kredytowa-Krolewska Street, Warsaw, Poland, Oct 1944	Sailor standing watch at a 40mm Bofors gun mount aboard USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944	Slovakian resistance fighters with a captured German 8.8cm gun, 1944

Twin mounted 5-inch/38 caliber gun turret aboard an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer. Note expended casings in netting beside the turret.	Young German Volkssturm soldier with MP 40 submachine gun in East Prussia, Germany, Oct 1944	Japanese Type 96 light machine gun with Type 99 shield; seen in figure 292 of US War Department's publication "Handbook On Japanese Military Forces" dated 1 Oct 1944	Type 97 light machine gun with telescopic sight, magazine, and jacket guard, as seen in Handbook on US War Department Japanese Military Forces (TM-E 30-480), 1 Oct 1944