Photos of World War II Weapons | World War II Database

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M1 mortar team on near the Rhine River, Germany, 1945	March 1945 Nomenclature and Operation guide for the Norden bombsight.	Mark XIII torpedoes on the deck edge elevator of USS Bennington ready for loading onto TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, off Okinawa, March 1945. Note wooden drag rings on the noses and stabilizers fitted to tails.	PFC Karl, a Marine Devil Dog Doberman Pinscher of the 6th War Dog Platoon, at a Japanese cave entrance. If the cave has an enemy, the dog is trained to give an alert signal. Iwo Jima, Mar 1945.

Private First Class John J. Helus (with BAR) and Corporal John A. Hicks (with M1), Iwo Jima, Japan, circa Feb-Mar 1945	United States Army Air Forces Major Byron Trent, commanding officer of the 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group at RAF Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England with a Disney Bomb on a bomb lifting carriage, 1945.	United States Army photo of a partially deflated Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb over the Pacific Ocean, likely near the Aleutian Islands. This shows why these descending balloons were often mistaken for parachutes.	US Marine mortar team, Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945

US Marine Private Francis Hall and his Doberman war dog, Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945	Waffen-SS soldiers near the end of the war. Camouflage uniforms are clearly shown. The rifle the soldier is holding is the Sturmgewehr 44.	Overlooking Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, Japan, 4 Mar 1945; note US Marine with M1 Carbine, Type 96 anti-aircraft mount, and the first B-29 to land on Iwo Jima	Crew of a 40mm quad anti-aircraft machine gun mount of Alaska loaded clips into the loaders of the left pair of guns, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945

Private G. Mills of British 2nd Gloucestershire Regiment with a PIAT launcher, northwestern Europe, 6 Mar 1945	M4 Sherman tank fitted with a bulldozer blade supporting US Marine infantry on Iwo Jima, 9 Mar 1945.	German Volkssturm troops with Panzerfäuste at a roadblock in Berlin, Germany, 10 Mar 1945	Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb draped across power lines in Toppenish, Washington, United States, 10 Mar 1945. This balloon caused a power outage that briefly affected the Hanford nuclear reactors 40 miles away.

13 Mar 1945 photo of the Essex-class carrier USS Randolph with damage to her flight deck as the result of a Japanese Yokosuka P1Y Ginga	Private First Class H. L. Miles and Corporal C. V. Corley of US Marines rested during a lull in battle, Iwo Jima, Japan, 15 Mar 1945	This Japanese soldier played dead for almost two days half buried in a shell hole holding a live grenade. Promising no resistance, he was given a cigarette before being removed from the hole, Iwo Jima, Mar 16, 1945	Carrier Franklin's after 5-inch/38 caliber gun mounting burning as result of bomb hit, off Japan, 19 Mar 1945; photograph taken from cruiser Santa Fe