Which is Your Favourite Weapon of World War Two?

My Favourite Vehicle? The USS Iowa (BB-61) the last active duty and longest serving Battle Ship of the US Navy. Comissioned on the 22nd of February 1943 and decomissioned on the 26th of october 1990.

Favourite weapon? Definately the M1 Garand

 

Whats so wrong with the carbine?? Way lighter weapon...

 

I'll take a flower class corvette please...

 

CAC: I'm glad you want to sit in your garage with a ME 262. The darn thing probably killed as many German pilots as enemy action did. However, it certainly was not the most dangerous to the user weapon the Germans developed.

urgh: a flower class corvette? I suspect you better have a lifetime supply of Dramamine to go with it. I believe Nicolas Monsarrat (sp ?) wrote, "A corvette would roll on wet grass!"

Since the rest of you got all the good ones (sniff), I guess I'll have to go with the MG-42.

 

Not all the good ones have been taken.

I've always liked the Jungle Carbine.

Looks like a hunting rifle.

 

I've never been to keen on the Jungle Carbine. The ones I've shot have kicked like a mule and haven't been much in the accuracy department, but to each his own. I'm surprises no one has mentioned the Enfield Mk 4. I consider it a lot better bolt action than it looks.

 

I agree 100%. They just look so darn cool.

 

The 57mm AutoCannon and the rocket projectiles and the shell technology that went with them.

The planning, effort and forethought that went into it fascinates me.
Mission planners would designate contact, delayed action, proximity or altimeter setting for fuses... armour piercing, frag, incendiary.

I would like to hear an explanation of how the ground crews aligned the rockets or cannons so they would hit in a tight pattern. Unsung hero's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M00f5RxhxLY

World War II Weapons and their Effects

A US Army WWII training film showing and demonstrating the range of weapons available to the US Army infantryman during the Second World War.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuSOecA864o

 

Assuming its .22? (Advertised all the time, but none the less a stg44)

 

It would be a toss up between the BREN gun and the Owen gun.

Less stopping power, less accurate at longer ranges.
Other than that, not much.

 

Ahhh...a Bren on the mantle peice...

 

If Hitler had pursued "Sealion", if the drive to Moscow had succeeded, if Naziism had been triumphant throughout Europe, there still would have been this scenario, with an America equpped with 10 or more "long gun" atomic weapons:

Pres. Truman: "OK, why are we looking at pictures of Poland. Who cares?"

Staff: "There are some serious policyi implications."

Pres. Truman: "What are they, By the way, why am I staring att some place called Auschwitz that has what look like gigantic bakeries?"

Staff: "Mr. President, we were just coming to that...'

 

Easy on the Holocaust Bro, Jesus christ.

So what's your favourite weapon?

 

Vehicle: Type VIIB Uboat OR P-51D Mustang.

Weapon: Still the Luger. Ever since I was a kid, like the Mustang.

 

OK going by that criteria I'd have a fully loaded LST complete with all the equipment & vehicles that would go on it.

so I'd have everthing from a knife, fork & spoon set to a tank or two plus the ship itself.

 

^ Wessex, you'd also have the good ol' Navy rations if I'm not mistaken

 

Don't forget your sea sickness pills. I think I read a quote somewhere that said, 'They'd roll on wet grass'

 

Just tripped across this higher quality excerpt from the above US Film

WW2 era weapons training video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNvffO5Ys54

 

Yeay yeah. I am hung up on anything that punctures or explodes... "I like things that go BANG!" :S!

1944 U.S. Army Tank Tactics Training Film that depicts operations and uses of light and medium tanks during World War II.
Combat firing by the individual tank:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmGQ7bQ_o_I