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World War II Weapons
The Second World War was an industrialised conflict in which advances in weapons and equipment had a major influence on the fighting. Rapid technological development across land, air and sea produced machines that were more powerful, faster and more numerous than those of earlier wars, and mass production allowed the major combatants to field them in enormous quantities.
On land, the tank was a central weapon. Armoured forces, such as the German panzer divisions, used tanks in concentrated formations to achieve breakthroughs, and tank design evolved steadily toward heavier armour and larger guns. In the air, military aircraft included fighters such as the American P-51 Mustang and P-47, and heavy bombers such as the B-17 and B-29, which carried out strategic bombing campaigns. The German air force, the Luftwaffe, fielded its own fighters and bombers in support of ground operations and in the defence of Germany.
At sea, the principal weapons were warships and submarines. Battleships carried the heaviest naval guns, while aircraft carriers launched strike aircraft far beyond gun range, and destroyers escorted convoys and hunted submarines. German U-boats waged a sustained campaign against Allied merchant shipping. The war also drove the development of new technologies, including radar, rockets and, by its end, nuclear weapons, the latter used against Japan in 1945. Together these weapons reflected the scale and ferocity of the conflict.
Frequently asked questions
- What role did tanks play in World War II?
- Tanks were used in concentrated armoured formations, such as German panzer divisions, to break through enemy lines and support fast-moving offensives.
- What were heavy bombers used for?
- Aircraft such as the B-17 and B-29 carried out strategic bombing, attacking industry, infrastructure and cities far behind the front lines.
- What new technologies did the war accelerate?
- The conflict spurred rapid progress in radar, jet and rocket propulsion, submarines and aircraft, and culminated in the development and use of nuclear weapons in 1945.
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Atomic
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| A bomb WWW
museum Little Boy is the nick name given to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on
august 6, 1945. It was monday morning. Little Boy was dropped from the Enola Gay,
one of the B-29 bombers that flew over Hiroshima on that day |
| Atom
bombs,
codes, conferences |
| Atomic archive
explores the complex history surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb - a
crucial turning point for all mankind |
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Atomic Bomb Decision On August 6 and 9, 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki were destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare. Documents on
the decision to use the atomic bomb are reproduced here in full-text form |
| Atomic
bombing of Hiroshima an eyewitness report written by Father P. Siemes, a Jesuit priest living near Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bombing. This hitherto unpublished report was handtyped only a few weeks after the bombing,
b-29, enola gay |
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by the Bomb On Aug. 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on
Nagasaki, Japan, effectively ending World War II. That moment forever linked
Nagasaki and Hanford, where the plutonium for Fat Man was manufactured. Fifty
years later, on Aug. 6, 1995, the Tri-City Herald published a special section
looking back at the bomb, Nagasaki and Hanford |
| Damages
caused by atomic bombs |
| Enola Gay
Enola Gay and the bombing of Hiroshima in World War II |
| Eye-witness
accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima the first atomic bomb actually used
in war time was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 killing between
130,000 and 150,000 people by the end of that year |
| Hiroshima |
| Hiroshima A-bomb
survival |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki
little Boy bomb, dropped by the U.S. B-29 Enola Gay, explodes with the force
of 15 kilotons of explosive, fatman bomb, dropped by the U.S. B-29 Bock's Car,
explodes with the force of 22 kilotons of explosive |
| Hiroshima
photos |
| Little Boy and Fat Man
Little Boy and Fat Man |
| Manhattan
project |
| Nagasaki
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb MuseumENagasaki's Peace appeals, Nagasaki Peace
Declaration, Tourism Information, Restoration work DEJIMA |
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Nuclearfiles.org
Since the advent of the atomic bomb humanity has been threatened with nuclear
holocaust. Repeating the mistakes of the past could mean our extinction. The
purpose of this timeline is to provide historical perspective, reminding us of
where we have been in order that we may achieve a safer and saner future |
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Nuclear testing Nuclear weapons tests have been historically broken into
categories (by treaties) reflecting in what sort of medium or location the test
has been conducted: atmospheric, underwater, and underground |
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weapon archive a guide to nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon, atomic bomb,
hydrogen bomb, warhead, H-bomb, A-bomb, nuclear test, thermonuclear, plutonium,
uranium, Teller-Ulam, implosion, fission, fusion |
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Study of the atomic bomb and World War II |
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Surviving the atomic
attack on Hiroshima, 1945 august 6, 1945 - the sun rose into a clear blue
sky over the city of Hiroshima, Japan promising a warm and pleasant day. Nothing
in the day's dawning indicated that this day would be any different from its
predecessors. But this day would be different, very different. This day would
change the world. On this day a single bomb dropped by a single airplane
destroyed the city, leading to the end of World War II and introducing mankind
to the Atomic Age |
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The first atomic
blast, 1945 |
| Trinity:
the 100 ton test the first nuclear explosion in history took place in New
Mexico, at the Alamogordo Test Range, on the Jornada del Muerto (journey of
death) desert, in the test named Trinity |
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| General
overview |
| Germany's world war II weapons |
| Giant's eye
the glass lens is the magic eye of science; but it is also the giant's eye of modern mechanised war, without which armies would be
practically blind |
| Panzerfaust page the weapons commonly referred to as Panzerfaust are light and cheap
yet powerful antitank weapons developed by Germany during the Second World War.
The idea was to give the single soldier the ability to knock out tanks in close
combat, negating the tank much of its invincibility and reign over infantry |
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Weapons |
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V1 pilotless aircraft & V2 flying bombs one remark: the
V1 is not a rocket, it's a
pilotless aircraft, a flying bomb, a doodlebug, a buzz bomb, The V2 is a
rocket,
thanks for the remark (Raymond of Belgium) |
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German
vengeance weapons 1942-45 |
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V1 rocket propaganda leaflets |
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V2
missiles seven German missiles from the rocket development works in
Peenemünde crashed in Sweden |
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V2 rocket
V2 rocket |
| V2rocket.com
the V-2 or Aggregat 4, was the first long range ballistic missile to be actively used in combat. This huge
German rocket hurtled a one ton warhead 50 miles high and hundreds of miles down
range to its target |
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V-bommenterreur
boven Antwerpen in Dutch |
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World War II: Tanks
- military vehicles |
| 2nd SS panzer
division |
| Achtung
panzer German tanks in world war II |
| Battle tanks
a collection of information and photos of most of the major tanks of the
leading countries from WWII to the present time |
| Designs
developed by Germany during World War II |
| Jagdtiger.de
pictures of preserved WWII vehicles and gear, world war II tanks and vehicles,
Kubinka, Aberdeen, Sinsheim, Munster, Bovington, Sherman, Tiger, Panther, T-34,
Panzer |
| Military photography &
research military vehicles |
| Panzer
battles |
| Panzer
colours photos from various German World War II armored vehicles in their
original paint schemes |
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Polish FT-17 |
| Pzkfw
VI tiger de panzerkampfwagen VI was een tank die behoort tot de categorie
zware tanks, in Dutch |
| Red Steel: devoted to Soviet
armour the former USSR and its armored forces, the Soviet tanks from the
early 1930's to famous tank designs like the Iosif Stalin series |
| Russian military zone
website, devoted to the Soviet tank development of the World War two, Lend-Lease tanks,
battles, artillery, soldiers at war |
| Tank
research |
| Tanks in
world war 2
informations and pictures of tanks, guns, halftracks etc. from the period
since World War 2 |
| Tracked
fighting vehicles |
| Wheeled
fighting vehicles armoured cars |
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