Australia

Handguns

• Webley Mk.VI (.455) & Mk.IV (.38/200)
  Webley Revolver
  The Webley Revolver was, in various marks, the standard issue service pistol for the armed forces of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the Commonwealths from 1887 until 1963.The Webley is a top-break revolver with automatic extraction...
  
  
• Enfield revolver
  Enfield revolver
  Enfield Revolver is the name applied to two totally separate models of self-extracting British handgun designed and manufactured at the government-owned Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield; initially the .476 calibre Revolver Enfield Mk I/Mk II revolvers , and later the .38/200 calibre Enfield No...
  
  
• Browning Hi-Power
  Browning Hi-Power
  The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. It is based on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at Fabrique Nationale of Herstal, Belgium. Browning died in 1926, several years before the design was finalized...
  
   Pistol

Rifles

• Lee-Enfield
  Lee-Enfield
  The Lee-Enfield bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century...
  
  
• Rifle No. 5 Mk I
  Jungle Carbine
  Jungle Carbine was an informal term used for the Rifle No. 5 Mk I which was a derivative of the British Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk I, designed not for jungle fighting but in response to a requirement for a "Shortened, Lightened" version of the No.4 rifle for airborne forces in the European theatre of...
  
  
• Charlton Automatic Rifle
  Charlton Automatic Rifle
  The Charlton Automatic Rifle was a fully automatic conversion of the Lee-Enfield rifle, designed by New Zealander Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in chronically short supply at the time....
  
  

Submachine Guns

• Owen
• Austen submachine gun
• Thompson M1928A1
• Sten
  Sten
  The STEN was a family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War...
  
  

Machine guns

• Lewis Gun
  Lewis Gun
  The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...
  
  
• Bren light machine gun
• Vickers machine gun
  Vickers machine gun
  Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 inch machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...
  
  

Anti-Tank weapons

• PIAT
  PIAT
  The Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank was a British hand-held anti-tank weapon developed during the Second World War. The PIAT was designed in 1942 in response to the British Army's need for a more effective infantry anti-tank weapon, and entered service in 1943.The PIAT was based on the spigot...
  
  
• Boys anti-tank rifle
• PIAT
  PIAT
  The Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank was a British hand-held anti-tank weapon developed during the Second World War. The PIAT was designed in 1942 in response to the British Army's need for a more effective infantry anti-tank weapon, and entered service in 1943.The PIAT was based on the spigot...
  
  

 Canada

Handguns

• Enfield revolver
  Enfield revolver
  Enfield Revolver is the name applied to two totally separate models of self-extracting British handgun designed and manufactured at the government-owned Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield; initially the .476 calibre Revolver Enfield Mk I/Mk II revolvers , and later the .38/200 calibre Enfield No...
  
  
• Browning Hi-Power
  Browning Hi-Power
  The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. It is based on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at Fabrique Nationale of Herstal, Belgium. Browning died in 1926, several years before the design was finalized...
  
  
• Smith & Wesson Model 10

Rifles

• Lee-Enfield SMLE
• Pattern 1914 Enfield
• Ross rifle
  Ross rifle
  The Ross rifle was a straight-pull bolt-action 0.303 inch calibre rifle produced in Canada from 1903 until the middle of the First World War....
  
  

Submachine Guns

• Sten
  Sten
  The STEN was a family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War...
  
  
• Thompson submachine gun
  Thompson submachine gun
  The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals...
  
  
• M50 Reising submachine gun
• M3 grease gun

Machine Guns

• Bren light machine gun
• Lewis Gun
  Lewis Gun
  The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...
  
  
• M1941 Johnson machine gun
• Vickers machine gun
  Vickers machine gun
  Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 inch machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...
  
  

Anti-tank weapons

• Boys anti-tank rifle
• PIAT
  PIAT
  The Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank was a British hand-held anti-tank weapon developed during the Second World War. The PIAT was designed in 1942 in response to the British Army's need for a more effective infantry anti-tank weapon, and entered service in 1943.The PIAT was based on the spigot...
  
  

 Republic of China China

Republic of China

The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

 

List of National Revolutionary Army

National Revolutionary Army

The National Revolutionary Army , pre-1928 sometimes shortened to 革命軍 or Revolutionary Army and between 1928-1947 as 國軍 or National Army was the Military Arm of the Kuomintang from 1925 until 1947, as well as the national army of the Republic of China during the KMT's period of party rule...

 weapons, including warlords and Communists.

Handguns

• Mauser C96
  Mauser C96
  The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...
  
   (Chinese Copy)
• Browning Hi-Power
  Browning Hi-Power
  The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. It is based on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at Fabrique Nationale of Herstal, Belgium. Browning died in 1926, several years before the design was finalized...
  
   (Burma Campaign
  Burma Campaign
  The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth land forces were drawn primarily from...
  
   X-Forces and Y-Forces)
• Tokarev TT-30/TT-33
  TT-33
  The TT-30 is a Russian semi-automatic pistol. It was developed in the early 1930s by Fedor Tokarev as a service pistol for the Soviet military to replace the Nagant M1895 revolver that had been in use since tsarist times, though it never fully replaced the M1895.-Development:In 1930, the...
  
   Chinese copy
• FN M1900
  FN M1900
  The FN Browning M1900 is a single action, semi-automatic pistol designed ca. 1896 by John Browning for Fabrique Nationale de Herstal and produced in Belgium at the turn of the century...
  
    (Chinese copy)
• Nambu Pistol
  Nambu pistol
  was a semi-automatic pistol used by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy during the First and Second World Wars. The pistol had two variants, the Type A , and the Type 14 .-History:...
  
   (captured from Japanese forces)
• Luger P08
• Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
  Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
  The Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless is .32 ACP caliber, self-loading, semi-automatic pistol designed by John Browning and built by Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut...
  
   (Issued to officers only)
• Nagant M1895
  Nagant M1895
  The Nagant M1895 Revolver is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when...
  
  

Rifles

• Type 24 rifle
  Chiang Kai-shek rifle
  The Type Zhongzheng rifle , also known as the Chiang Kai-shek/Jiang Jieshi Rifle and Type 24 after the Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, was a Chinese-made copy of the German Mauser Gewehr 98, the forerunner of the Karabiner 98k. Pre-production of the Chiang Kai-Shek rifle started in August...
  
  -main battle rifle (Chinese licensed copy of Gewehr 98
  Gewehr 98
  The Gewehr 98 is a German bolt action Mauser rifle firing the 8x57mm cartridge from a 5 round internal clip-loaded magazine that was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935, when it was replaced by the Karabiner 98k. It was hence the main rifle of the German infantry during World War I...
  
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• Hanyang Type 88
  Hanyang 88
  The Type 88, sometimes known as "Hanyang 88", was a Chinese rifle that was issued to the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The name derived from the Hanyang Arsenal factory that made this rifle. The rifle had a bayonet attachment to use in close combat after a charge...
  
  
• Mosin-Nagant M1891/30, M1938, M1944
• Mauser Karabiner 98k
  Karabiner 98k
  The Karabiner 98 Kurz was a bolt action rifle chambered for the 8x57mm IS/7.92×57mm IS cartridge that was adopted as the standard service rifle in 1935 by the German Wehrmacht. It was one of the final developments in the long line of Mauser military rifles...
  
   (mainly given to the early German trained divisions)
• Gewehr 98
  Gewehr 98
  The Gewehr 98 is a German bolt action Mauser rifle firing the 8x57mm cartridge from a 5 round internal clip-loaded magazine that was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935, when it was replaced by the Karabiner 98k. It was hence the main rifle of the German infantry during World War I...
  
  
• Browning Automatic Rifle
  Browning Automatic Rifle
  The Browning Automatic Rifle was a family of United States automatic rifles and light machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed...
  
   (U.S Lend Lease)
• Mondragón rifle
• ZH-29
  ZH-29
  The ZH-29 was a semi-automatic rifle developed in Czechoslovakia during the late 1920s and used by Chinese military forces. The ZH-29 is one of the first successful self loading rifles in service.-Overview:...
  
  
• Vz. 24
  Vz. 24
  The vz. 24 rifle is a rifle designed and produced in Czechoslovakia from 1924 to 1942. It was developed from the Mauser Gewehr 98 line, though is not a clone of any specific Mauser model. The fit and finish are of the highest quality....
  
  
• FN 1924
• SVT-40 (Only used by communist forces)
• Arisaka
  Arisaka
  Arisaka is a family of Japanese military bolt action rifles, in production from approximately 1898, when it replaced the Murata rifle, until the end of World War II in 1945...
  
   Type 38 rifle
  Type 38 rifle
  The is a bolt-action rifle. For a time it was the standard rifle of the Japanese infantry. It was known also as the Type 38 Year Meiji Carbine in Japan. An earlier, similar weapon was the Type 30 Year Meiji Rifle, which was also used alongside it. Both of these weapons were also known as the...
  
  , Type 44 carbine, and Type 99 rifle
  Type 99 Rifle
  The was a bolt-action rifle of the Arisaka design used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.-History:During the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, the Japanese soon found that the 8×57mm IS cartridge the Chinese used was superior to the 6.5×50mm cartridge of the Type 38 rifle,...
  
   (captured from Japanese forces)
• M1 Garand
  M1 Garand
  The M1 Garand , was the first semi-automatic rifle to be generally issued to the infantry of any nation. Called "the greatest battle implement ever devised" by General George S...
  
   (U.S Lend Lease)
• M1 Carbine
  M1 Carbine
  The M1 carbine is a lightweight, easy to use semi-automatic carbine that became a standard firearm for the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was produced in several variants. It was widely used by U.S...
  
   (U.S Lend Lease)
• Springfield M1903 (U.S Lend Lease)

Submachine Guns

• MP18
  MP18
  The MP18.1 manufactured by Theodor Bergmann Waffenbau Abteilung was the first practical submachine gun used in combat. It was introduced into service in 1918 by the German Army during World War I as the primary weapon of the Stosstruppen, assault groups specialized in trench combat...
  
  
• M3 submachine gun
  M3 submachine gun
  The M3 was an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted for U.S. Army service on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. The M3 was designed as a more cost-effective alternative to the Thompson, optimized for mass production...
  
   (U.S Lend Lease)
• Thompson SMG (U.S Lend Lease and locally produced Chinese copies)
• Sten
  Sten
  The STEN was a family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War...
  
  
• PPSh-41
  PPSh-41
  The PPSh-41 was a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgi Shpagin as an inexpensive, simplified alternative to the PPD-40. Intended for use by minimally-trained conscript soldiers, the PPSh was a magazine-fed selective-fire submachine gun using an open-bolt, blowback action...
  
   (Only used by communist forces)
• PPS
  PPS submachine gun
  The PPS was a family of Soviet submachine guns chambered in 7.62x25mm Tokarev, developed by Alexei Sudayev as a low-cost personal defense weapon for reconnaissance units, vehicle crews and support service personnel.The PPS and its variants were used extensively by the Red...
  
   (Only used by communist forces)
• Type 100 submachine gun
  Type 100 submachine gun
  The was a Japanese submachine gun used during World War II, and the only submachine gun produced by Japan in any quantity. It was made in two basic variants referred to by American and British observers as the Type 100/40 and the Type 100/44, the latter also known as the Type 100...
  
   (captured from Japanese forces)
• United Defense M42
  United Defense M42
  The United Defense M42 was an American submachine gun in World War II. It was produced from 1942 to 1943 by United Defense Supply Corp. for possible issue as a replacement for the Thompson submachine gun and was used by agents of the Office of Strategic Services .-History:The M42 was developed by...
  
   (U.S Lend Lease and locally produced Chinese copies)

Light Machine Guns

• ZB vz.26
  ZB vz.26
  The ZB vz. 26 was a Czechoslovak light machine gun developed in the 1920s, which went on to enter service with several countries. It saw its major use during World War II, and spawned the related ZB vz. 27, vz. 30, and vz. 33. The ZB vz. 26 influenced many other light machine gun designs including...
  
   (purchased in large quantity from former Czechoslovakia
  Czechoslovakia
  Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
  
  , later local produced Chinese copies)!
• Browning M1919 Medium Machine Gun (U.S Lend Lease)
• MG34 (Chinese copy)
• Bren LMG
• Degtyaryov machine gun (Only used by communist forces)
• Type 11 light machine gun
  Type 11 Light Machine Gun
  The was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the interwar period and during World War II.-History:Combat experience in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 had convinced the Japanese army of the utility of machine guns to provide covering fire for advancing infantry...
  
   (captured from Japanese forces)
• Type 96 light machine gun
  Type 96 Light Machine Gun
  The was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the interwar period and in World War II. - History and development :Combat experience in the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and subsequent actions in Manchuria and northern China reaffirmed the Japanese army of the utility of machine...
  
   (captured from Japanese forces)
• Type 99 light machine gun
  Type 99 Light Machine Gun
  The was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. -History and development:The Type 96 Light Machine Gun, an improvement over the previous Type 11 Light Machine Gun was introduced into combat service in 1936, and quickly proved to be a versatile weapon to provide...
  
   (captured from Japanese forces)
• FM-24/29
  FM-24/29
  The Fusil mitrailleur modèle 1924 M29 was the standard light machine gun of the French Army from the early 1930s until the 1950s and was in use until 2000-2006 with the National Gendarmerie.-Development:...
  
  

Heavy Machine Guns'

• Chinese Type 24 Heavy Machine Gun (Chinese copy of MG 08)
• Browning M1917 (locally produced copies chambered for 7.92mm Mauser rounds)
• PM M1910

Anti-Tank weapons

• Boys anti tank rifle
• PTRD
  PTRD
  The PTRD-41 was an anti-tank rifle produced and used from early 1941 by the Soviet Red Army during World War II. It was a single-shot weapon which fired a 14.5x114mm round...
  
  

Grenades

• Model 24 grenade
  Model 24 grenade
  The Model 24 Stielhandgranate was the standard hand grenade of the German Army from the end of World War I until the end of World War II. The very distinctive appearance led to its being called a "stick grenade", or a "potato masher" in British Army slang, and is today one of the most easily...
  
   (Chinese copy)

Close quarters weapons

• Dadao
  Dadao
  The dadao one of the varieties of dao or Chinese saber, is also known as the Chinese great sword. Based on agricultural knives, dadao have broad blades generally between two and three feet long, long hilts meant for "hand and a half" or two-handed use, and generally a weight-forward balance...
  
  
• Miao dao
  Miao dao
  The Miao Dao is a Chinese two-handed dao or saber of the Republican era, with a narrow blade of up to 1.2 meters or more and a long hilt. The name means "sprout saber", presumably referring to a likeness between the weapon and a newly sprouted plant...
  
  
• HY1935 bayonet
  HY1935 bayonet
  The Hanyang M1935 bayonet is a bayonet used on the Chinese Chiang Kai-Shek rifle. It is based on the Mauser S84/98 III bayonet used on German Gewehr 98 rifles and derivatives....
  
  
• Qiang (spear)
  Qiang (spear)
  Qiang is the Chinese term for spear. Due to its relative ease of manufacture, the spear in many variations was ubiquitous on the pre-modern Chinese battlefield...
  
  
• Type 30 bayonet
  Type 30 bayonet
  The Type 30 bayonet was designed to be used with the Japanese Type 30 Rifle and later used on the Type 38 Rifle and Type 99 rifle. The weapon was a sword-type bayonet with a 400 mm long blade and an overall length of 514 mm...
  
   (captured from Japanese forces)

 Czechoslovakia

Handguns

• ČZ vz. 38
  CZ vz. 38
  The CZ vzor 38 is a pistol model of 1938 chambered in .380 ACP . The barrel is attached to the frame by a hinge, allowing for very easy disassembly.-External links:*...
  
  
• Pistole vz. 22
  Pistole vz. 22
  The pistole vz. 22 was the first Czech Army pistol of the inter-war period. It was a licensed version of the Mauser Model 1914 pistol produced in small numbers. Slovakia seized over seven thousand vz. 22s when it declared its independence from Czechoslovakia in March 1939.-External links:*...
  
  
• ČZ vz. 27
• Pistole vz. 24
  Pistole vz. 24
  The pistole vz. 24 was the standard Czech Army pistol of the inter-war period. It was an improved version of the pistole vz. 22, which had been licensed from Mauser. Slovakia seized over ten thousand vz. 24s when it declared its independence from Czechoslovakia in March 1939. The vz. 24 was...
  
  

Rifles

• vz. 24
  Vz. 24
  The vz. 24 rifle is a rifle designed and produced in Czechoslovakia from 1924 to 1942. It was developed from the Mauser Gewehr 98 line, though is not a clone of any specific Mauser model. The fit and finish are of the highest quality....
  
  
• vz. 33
  Vz. 33
  The puška vz. 33 was a Czechoslovak bolt action rifle that was based on a Mauser type action, designed and produced in Československá zbrojovka in Brno during the 1930s in order to replace the obsolete Mannlicher vz. 1895 carbines of the Czechoslovak četnictvo...
  
  
• ZH-29
  ZH-29
  The ZH-29 was a semi-automatic rifle developed in Czechoslovakia during the late 1920s and used by Chinese military forces. The ZH-29 is one of the first successful self loading rifles in service.-Overview:...
  
  

Sub Machine Guns

• ZK-383
  ZK-383
  The ZK-338 is a submachine gun and was developed by Koucký brothers who worked at the Zbrojovka Brno arms factory in Czechoslovakia. It was produced at a slow rate from 1938 and was exported as far as Latin American to Bolivia and Venezuela.-History:...
  
  

Machine Guns

• ZB vz. 26
• ZB-30
  ZB-30
  The ZB-30 and ZB-30J were the later versions of the famous Czechoslovak machine gun, the ZB-26. However, the ZB-30 had some design differences, making it similar to the later ZGB-33, which was put into production as the Bren gun...
  
  
• ZB-50
  ZB-50
  The ZB-50 is a heavy machine gun of Czechoslovak origin. It was the only recoil operated weapon of its type from the ZB company.-References:******...
  
  
• ZB-53
  ZB-53
  The ZB-53 was a machine gun used by the Czechoslovak army designated TK vz. 37 and later used by German forces during World War II as the MG 37....
  
  

 Finland

Handguns

• Lahti L-35
  Lahti L-35
  Lahti L-35 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Finnish Aimo Lahti that was produced between 1935 and 1952. About 9000 pistols were made in four production series....
  
  
• Luger pistol
  Luger pistol
  The Pistole Parabellum 1908 or Parabellum-Pistole , popularly known as the Luger, is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol. The design was patented by Georg J...
  
  
• Walther P38
• Ruby pistol
  Ruby pistol
  The self-loading Ruby pistol is best known as a French World War I sidearm, the Pistolet Automatique de 7 millim.65 genre "Ruby". A very international piece of weaponry, it was closely modeled after the American John Browning's M1903 made by the Belgian Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, and was...
  
  
• Mauser C96
  Mauser C96
  The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...
  
  

Rifles

• Mosin-Nagant
  Mosin-Nagant
  The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....
  
  
• M28 rifle aka Pystykorva
• M39 rifle
  Mosin-Nagant
  The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....
  
   aka Ukko-Pekka
  Mosin-Nagant
  The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....
  
  

Submachine Guns

• Suomi KP/-31
• MP18
  MP18
  The MP18.1 manufactured by Theodor Bergmann Waffenbau Abteilung was the first practical submachine gun used in combat. It was introduced into service in 1918 by the German Army during World War I as the primary weapon of the Stosstruppen, assault groups specialized in trench combat...
  
  

Machine Guns

• Lahti-Saloranta M/26
  Lahti-Saloranta M/26
  The Lahti-Saloranta M/26 is a light machine gun which was designed by Aimo Lahti and Arvo Saloranta in 1926. The weapon was able to fire in both full automatic and semi-automatic modes...
  
  
• Maxim M/32-33
  Maxim M/32-33
  The Maxim M/32-33 is a Finnish modification of the Russian M1910 Maxim, developed by Aimo Lahti in 1932. The weapon was able to fire at the rate of 850 rounds/min, while the Russian M1919 and earlier Finnish M09-21 were capable of 600 rounds /min...
  
  
• DP machine gun

Anti-tank weapons

• Lahti L-39
• Boys anti-tank rifle
• Panzerschreck
  Panzerschreck
  Panzerschreck was the popular name for the Raketenpanzerbüchse , an 88 mm calibre reusable anti-tank rocket launcher developed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Another popular nickname was Ofenrohr ....
  
  
• Panzerfaust
  Panzerfaust
  The Panzerfaust was an inexpensive, recoilless German anti-tank weapon of World War II. It consisted of a small, disposable preloaded launch tube firing a high explosive anti-tank warhead, operated by a single soldier...
  
  
• Solothurn S-18/100
  Solothurn S-18/100
  The Solothurn S-18/100 20 mm Anti-Tank Cannon was a Swiss & German anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had a semi-automatic action in a bullpup configuration. As a result of its large, powerful ammunition the gun had a tremendous recoil, and its size made portability difficult...
  
  
• 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun
  25 mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun
  The 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun was a French anti-tank gun that saw service in the first years of the Second World War.-Development:...
  
  
• Satchel charge
  Satchel charge
  thumb|right|250px|Weapons used in [[Winter War]]. The original Finnish satchel charge at left.A satchel charge is a demolition device, primarily intended for combat, whose primary components are a charge of dynamite or a more potent explosive such as C-4 plastic explosive, a carrying device...
  
  

Grenades

• Molotov cocktail
  Molotov cocktail
  The Molotov cocktail, also known as the petrol bomb, gasoline bomb, Molotov bomb, fire bottle, fire bomb, or simply Molotov, is a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons...
  
  
• Model 24
• RGD-33

Anti-aircraft weapons

• 7,62 ITKK 31 VKT
  7,62 ITKK 31 VKT
  7,62 ITKK 31 VKT or 7,62 mm VKT anti-aircraft machine gun was the primary anti-aircraft machine gun of the Finnish Army during World War II. The weapon was designed by the Finnish gunsmith Aimo Lahti...
  
  
• 20 ITK 40 VKT
  20 ITK 40 VKT
  20 ItK 40 VKT or 20 mm dual anti-aircraft cannon model 1940 manufactured by VKT was a Finnish light anti-aircraft gun designed by the Finnish gunsmith Aimo Lahti. As the only multi-barrel 20 mm anti-aircraft gun 20 ItK 40 VKT was the most effective 20 mm air defence weapon used by the Finnish Army...
  
  

Heavy guns

• Canon de 75 modèle 1897
  Canon de 75 modèle 1897
  The French 75mm field gun was a quick-firing field artillery piece adopted in March 1898. Its official French designation was: Matériel de 75mm Mle 1897. It was commonly known as the French 75, simply the 75 and Soixante-Quinze .The French 75 is widely regarded as the first modern artillery piece...
  
  
• Canon de 155 C modèle 1915 St. Chamond
  Canon de 155 C modèle 1915 St. Chamond
  The Canon de 155 C modèle 1915 St. Chamond was a French howitzer used during World War I. Used only by France during the war it was superseded in service by the Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider, although they remained in service into the beginning of World War II...
  
  

 Early Modern France France

French Third Republic

The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...

 

Handguns

• Mle 1935
• MAB Model D pistol
• Star Model 14
  Star Model 14
  The Star Model 1914 was produced by Star Bonifacio Echeverria S.A., and largely an improved version of the Star Model 1908, particularly in terms of ergonomics. This model was chosen by the French Army in 7.65mm Browning calibre, also called the Pistolet automatique Star...
  
  

Rifles

• MAS-36
  MAS-36
  The MAS Modèle 36 is a bolt-action rifle. It was adopted in 1936 by France, and was intended to replace the Berthier and Lebel series of service rifles. It was manufactured by MAS The MAS Modèle 36 is a bolt-action rifle. It was adopted in 1936 by France, and was intended to replace the Berthier...
  
  
• Berthier rifle
  Berthier rifle
  The Berthier rifles and carbines were a family of bolt-action small arms in 8mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II...
  
  
• Lebel Model 1886 rifle
  Lebel Model 1886 rifle
  The Lebel Model 1886 rifle is also known as the "Fusil Mle 1886 M93", after a bolt modification was added in 1893. It is an 8mm bolt action infantry rifle which entered service in the French Army in April 1887...
  
  
• Berthier carbine
  Berthier carbine
  The Berthier carbine was a French service rifle adopted in 1892, which was widely used during the First and Second World War....
  
  
• Fusil Automatique Modele 1917
  Fusil Automatique Modele 1917
  The Fusil Automatique Modele 1917 was a semi-automatic, gas-operated, infantry rifle that was placed in service in the French Army during the latter part of World War I. It was chambered in the then-standard 8mm Lebel rimmed cartridge used in other French Army infantry weapons of the time...
  
  

Submachine Guns

• MAS-38
  MAS-38
  The MAS-38 was a French submachine gun designed prior to the Second World War and used by French and German forces.It derived from a small arms development program that took place between 1918 and 1922 under the control of the Service Technique de l'Armement. A submachine gun, a light machine gun...
  
  
• Thompson M1928
• Sten
  Sten
  The STEN was a family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War...
  
  
• Bergmann MP18
• Erma EMP-35
  ERMA EMP-35
  The German sub-machine gun EMP-35 was designed by engineer Heinrich Vollmer and produced at the Erma factory from 1930 to 1938 for export . The EMP was tested in the Spanish Civil War...
  
  
• Ribeyrolle 1918 automatic carbine
  Ribeyrolle 1918 automatic carbine
  The Ribeyrolles 1918 was an attempt to manufacture an automatic rifle for the French forces. It was chambered in the experimental 8x35mm round, used straight blow-back, was fed from a 25 round magazine and had an effective range of 400m....
  
  

Machine Guns

• FM-24/29
  FM-24/29
  The Fusil mitrailleur modèle 1924 M29 was the standard light machine gun of the French Army from the early 1930s until the 1950s and was in use until 2000-2006 with the National Gendarmerie.-Development:...
  
  
• Hotchkiss M1914
• Hotchkiss M1922 machine gun
  Hotchkiss M1922 machine gun
  The Hotchkiss M1922 was a light machine gun manufactured by Hotchkiss. It had a regulator that could adjust the rate of fire and was chambered in a wide range of calibres and fed from 20 round overhead magazines or 15-24-30 round strip.-References:*...
  
  
• Reibel machine gun
• MAC 1934
  MAC 1934
  In 1934 the Manufacture d'Armes de Châtellerault completed the development of the MAC 1934 machine gun to replace the Darne mod. 1933 machine gun aboard aircraft of the Armée de l'Air...
  
  
• Darne machine gun

 Nazi Germany Germany

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

 

Handguns

• Walther P38
• Luger P08
  Luger pistol
  The Pistole Parabellum 1908 or Parabellum-Pistole , popularly known as the Luger, is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol. The design was patented by Georg J...
  
  
• Walther PP, PPK
• Sauer 38H
  Sauer 38H
  The Sauer 38H or often just H was a small semi-automatic pistol made in Nazi Germany from 1938 until just after the end of World War II by J. P. Sauer & Sohn, then based in Suhl, Germany. The "H" in the model number denotes "hammerless"—the pistol uses an internal hammer.-Development:Sauer...
  
  
• Mauser HSC
  Mauser HSC
  The Mauser HSc is a 7.65mm pistol made in Nazi Germany during World War II and post-war. The designation HSc stood for Hahn Selbstspanner Pistole, third and final design "C". Production was continued in 1945–46 during the French occupation and, later, from 1968 to 1977 by Mauser...
  
  
• Dreyse M1907
  Dreyse M1907
  The Dreyse Model 1907 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Louis Schmeisser. The gun was named after Nikolaus von Dreyse, the designer of the Dreyse Needle Gun...
  
   - late war use as emergency measure
• Mauser C96
  Mauser C96
  The Mauser C96 is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937...
  
  
• Pistole 640

Rifles

• Gewehr 41
  Gewehr 41
  The Gewehr 41 rifles, commonly known as the G41 or G41, were semi-automatic rifles used by Nazi Germany during World War II-Background:...
  
  
• Gewehr 43
  Gewehr 43
  The Gewehr 43 or Karabiner 43 is an 8x57mm IS caliber semi-automatic rifle developed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
  
  
• Mauser Karabiner 98k
  Karabiner 98k
  The Karabiner 98 Kurz was a bolt action rifle chambered for the 8x57mm IS/7.92×57mm IS cartridge that was adopted as the standard service rifle in 1935 by the German Wehrmacht. It was one of the final developments in the long line of Mauser military rifles...
  
  
• Gewehr 98
  Gewehr 98
  The Gewehr 98 is a German bolt action Mauser rifle firing the 8x57mm cartridge from a 5 round internal clip-loaded magazine that was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935, when it was replaced by the Karabiner 98k. It was hence the main rifle of the German infantry during World War I...
  
  

Submachine Guns

• MP 18/MP 28
• MP 34
  MP 34
  The MP34 is a submachine gun that was manufactured by Waffenfabrik Steyr and used by the Austrian police and subsequently by units of the German army, including the Waffen SS, in World War II...
  
  
• MP 35
• MP 40
• MP 3008
  MP 3008
  The 9 mm MP 3008 was a German substitute standard submachine gun manufactured toward the end of World War II in early 1945....
  
   (10,000) - use in 1945 only
• PPSH-41
  PPSh-41
  The PPSh-41 was a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgi Shpagin as an inexpensive, simplified alternative to the PPD-40. Intended for use by minimally-trained conscript soldiers, the PPSh was a magazine-fed selective-fire submachine gun using an open-bolt, blowback action...
  
   (captured)

Machine Guns

• MG 08
• MG 13 - second line units later in war
• MG 15
  MG 15
  The MG 15 was a German 7.9 mm machine gun designed specifically as a hand manipulated defensive gun for combat aircraft during the early 1930s. By 1941 it was replaced by other types and found new uses with ground troops.- History :...
  
   (about 18,000)
• MG 17
• MG 34
  MG 34
  The Maschinengewehr 34, or MG 34, is a German air-cooled machine gun that was first produced and accepted into service in 1934, and first issued to units in 1935. It accepts the 8x57mm IS cartridge....
  
  
• MG 42

Automatic Rifles

• Sturmgewehr 44
  Sturmgewehr 44
  The StG 44 was an assault rifle developed in Nazi Germany during World War II and was the first of its kind to see major deployment, considered by many historians to be the first modern assault rifle...
  
  
• FG-42
• Volkssturmgewehr 1-5
  Volkssturmgewehr 1-5
  The Volkssturmgewehr 1-5 is a set of 5 rifle designs developed by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II...
  
   (possibly 10,000 of all designs)

Sniper Rifles

• Gewehr 43
  Gewehr 43
  The Gewehr 43 or Karabiner 43 is an 8x57mm IS caliber semi-automatic rifle developed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
  
   (scoped)
• Gewehr 98
  Gewehr 98
  The Gewehr 98 is a German bolt action Mauser rifle firing the 8x57mm cartridge from a 5 round internal clip-loaded magazine that was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935, when it was replaced by the Karabiner 98k. It was hence the main rifle of the German infantry during World War I...
  
   (scoped)
• Karabiner 98k
  Karabiner 98k
  The Karabiner 98 Kurz was a bolt action rifle chambered for the 8x57mm IS/7.92×57mm IS cartridge that was adopted as the standard service rifle in 1935 by the German Wehrmacht. It was one of the final developments in the long line of Mauser military rifles...
  
   (scoped)

Anti-tank Weapons

• Panzerfaust
  Panzerfaust
  The Panzerfaust was an inexpensive, recoilless German anti-tank weapon of World War II. It consisted of a small, disposable preloaded launch tube firing a high explosive anti-tank warhead, operated by a single soldier...
  
  
• Panzerschreck
  Panzerschreck
  Panzerschreck was the popular name for the Raketenpanzerbüchse , an 88 mm calibre reusable anti-tank rocket launcher developed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Another popular nickname was Ofenrohr ....
  
   (approx 290,000)
• Panzerbüchse 38 & Panzerbüchse 39
  Panzerbüchse
  The Panzerbüchse 39 was a German anti-tank rifle used in World War II. It was an improvement of the unsuccessful Panzerbüchse 38 rifle. Panzerbüchse literally means "tank hunting rifle".-PzB 38:...
  
  
• 8.8 cm Raketenwerfer 43 (3,000)

Flamethrowers

• Flammenwerfer 35
  Flammenwerfer 35
  The Flammenwerfer 35, or FmW 35 was the one-man German flamethrower used during World War II used to clear out trenches and buildings. This was a deadly weapon that was extremely effective at close range...
  
  
• Einstossflammenwerfer 46
  Einstossflammenwerfer 46
  The Einstossflammenwerfer 46 was a flamethrower designed in Germany during the second half of World War II and introduced in 1944; it was engineered to be both cheap and easily mass-produced...
  
  

Grenades

• Model 24 Stielhandgranate Offensive Hand Grenade
  Model 24 grenade
  The Model 24 Stielhandgranate was the standard hand grenade of the German Army from the end of World War I until the end of World War II. The very distinctive appearance led to its being called a "stick grenade", or a "potato masher" in British Army slang, and is today one of the most easily...
  
  
• Model 43 Stielhandgranate Offensive Hand Grenade
  Model 43 grenade
  The Model 43 Stielhandgranate was introduced by the German Army mid-way through World War II to replace the earlier Model 24...
  
  
• Model 39 Eiergranate Hand Grenade
  Model 39 grenade
  The Model 39 Eihandgranate was a German hand grenade introduced in 1939 and produced until the end of World War II. The Eihandgranate used the same fuse assembly as the Model 43 Stielhandgranate , which was screwed into the top of the sheet-metal body...
  
  
• Splitterring
• S-mine
  S-mine
  The German S-mine , also known as the "Bouncing Betty," is the best-known version of a class of mines known as bounding mines. When triggered, these mines launch into the air and then detonate at about . The explosion projects a lethal spray of steel balls and fragments in all directions...
  
   (anti-personnel mine)

Melee weapons

• Kampfmesser 42
  Kampfmesser 42
  The Kampfmesser 42 was a German made dual purpose combat knife. It was issued to the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS and was used throughout the Second World War. It was designed as a fighting knife and bayonette. This specific bayonette was longer than the usual bayonettes on rifles, and was commonly used...
  
  

 Greece Greece

Kingdom of Greece

The Kingdom of Greece was a state established in 1832 in the Convention of London by the Great Powers...

 

Handguns

• Ruby pistol
  Ruby pistol
  The self-loading Ruby pistol is best known as a French World War I sidearm, the Pistolet Automatique de 7 millim.65 genre "Ruby". A very international piece of weaponry, it was closely modeled after the American John Browning's M1903 made by the Belgian Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, and was...
  
  

Rifles

• Lee Enfield
• M1 Garand
  M1 Garand
  The M1 Garand , was the first semi-automatic rifle to be generally issued to the infantry of any nation. Called "the greatest battle implement ever devised" by General George S...
  
  
• Mannlicher-Schönauer
  Mannlicher-Schönauer
  The Mannlicher-Schönauer is a type of rotary magazine bolt action rifle produced by Steyr-Mannlicher for the Greek Army in 1903 and later was also used in small numbers by the Austro-Hungarian Armies.-Design Characteristics:In the late 19th century, the...
  
  
• Gras rifle

Submachine Gun

• Thompson submachine gun
  Thompson submachine gun
  The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals...
  
  

Machine Gun

• Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
  Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
  The Maschinengewehr Patent Schwarzlose M.07/12 was a medium machine-gun, and was used as a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout World War I. It was also used by the Dutch, Greek and Hungarian armies during World War II...
  
  
• Modified Hotchkiss machine gun
  Modified Hotchkiss machine gun
  The Modified Hotchkiss machine gun was a Greek improvement of the French Hotchkiss M1926, in turn an evolution of the Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun. Existing stock of French-built weapons was modernized before World War II in the Greek State Military Material Facility of Athens...
  
  
• EPK (Pyrkal) Machine gun
  EPK (Pyrkal) Machine gun
  The EPK Machine Gun was designed by EPK, a Greek defense company later known as Pyrkal. The gun's creation is connected to EPK's ambitions to become a major producer of infantry weapons and a relevant 1937 proposal to the Greek government...
  
  
• Saint Etienne Machine-Gun

 Hungary Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...

 

Handguns

• FÉG 37M Pistol
• Frommer Stop
  Frommer Stop
  The Frommer Stop is a Hungarian long-recoil pistol manufactured by Fémáru-, Fegyver és Gépgyár [Metalware, Weapons and Machine Factory] in Budapest. It was designed by Rudolf Frommer, and its original design was adopted as the Pisztoly 12M in 1912, created for the Honvédség. The handgun was...
  
  
• FÉG 29M
• Frommer Lilliput
• 20M flare pistol
• 42M flare pistol
• 43M flare pistol

Rifles

• 35M rifle
• 43M rifle
• Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
  Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
  The Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle is a bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher that used a refined version of his revolutionary straight-pull action. It was nicknamed the "Ruck-Zuck" by Landsers...
  
  
• 95M Mannlicher
• 31M rifle
• 30M rifle
• 38M rifle

Submachine Guns

• Danuvia 39M
• Danuvia 43M

Machine Guns

• Solothurn 31M light MG
  MG30
  The Maschinengewehr 30, or MG 30 was a German-designed machine gun that saw some service with various armed forces in the 1930s. It was also modified to become the standard German aircraft gun as the MG 15 and MG 17...
  
  
• Schwarzlose 7/31M heavy MG
  Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
  The Maschinengewehr Patent Schwarzlose M.07/12 was a medium machine-gun, and was used as a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout World War I. It was also used by the Dutch, Greek and Hungarian armies during World War II...
  
  
• Madsel LMG (Madsen golyószóró)
• 1934M Stange (MG34)
• 1942M Grunov (MG42
  MG42
  The MG 42 is a 7.9mm universal machine gun that was developed in Nazi Germany and entered service with the Wehrmacht in 1942...
  
  )
• 42M (MG131)

Anti-tank Weapons

• Solothurn 36M 20mm anti-tank rifle (S-18/100)
  Solothurn S-18/100
  The Solothurn S-18/100 20 mm Anti-Tank Cannon was a Swiss & German anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had a semi-automatic action in a bullpup configuration. As a result of its large, powerful ammunition the gun had a tremendous recoil, and its size made portability difficult...
  
  
• Panzerschreck
  Panzerschreck
  Panzerschreck was the popular name for the Raketenpanzerbüchse , an 88 mm calibre reusable anti-tank rocket launcher developed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Another popular nickname was Ofenrohr ....
  
  
• Kis Páncélököl (Panzerfaust Klein)
• Nagy Páncélököl (Panzerfaust 30)
• 43M kézi páncéltörő vető (Hungarian bazooka
  Bazooka
  Bazooka is the common name for a man-portable recoilless rocket antitank weapon, widely fielded by the U.S. Army. Also referred to as the "Stovepipe", the innovative bazooka was amongst the first-generation of rocket propelled anti-tank weapons used in infantry combat...
  
   variant)
• 44M kézi páncéltörő vető (Hungarian panzerschreck
  Panzerschreck
  Panzerschreck was the popular name for the Raketenpanzerbüchse , an 88 mm calibre reusable anti-tank rocket launcher developed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Another popular nickname was Ofenrohr ....
  
   variant)
• 36M mine
• 43M mine

Grenades

• L-28M Goldmann
• 31M Vesiczky
• 36M Vécsey
• 37M Demeter
• 42M Vecsey

• 39A/M fire Grenade (Molotov cocktail
  Molotov cocktail
  The Molotov cocktail, also known as the petrol bomb, gasoline bomb, Molotov bomb, fire bottle, fire bomb, or simply Molotov, is a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons...
  
  )

• 43M smoke grenade

• Lila füstgyertya

 Italy Italy 

Handguns

• Beretta Modello 1934
  Beretta M1934
  The Beretta model 1934 is a compact, semi-automatic pistol which was issued as a standard service firearm to the Italian armed forces beginning in 1934...
  
  
• Beretta Modello 1935
  Beretta M1935
  The Beretta M1935 is a compact .32 ACP caliber blowback pistol that was manufactured by Beretta.- History :In the early 1930s, the Italian army was impressed by the Walther PP pistol, Beretta did not want to lose a big Italian military contract and designed the compact M1934 for the Italian army...
  
  
• Glisenti M1910
  Glisenti Model 1910
  The Glisenti Model 1910 was a 9mm calibre semi-automatic service pistol produced by the Italian company Real Factory D'arma Glisenti. It was introduced in 1910 and adopted by the Royal Italian Army, seeing service in World War I and World War II....
  
  
• Roth-Steyr M1907
  Roth-Steyr M1907
  The Roth-Steyr M1907, or, more accurately Roth-Krnka M.7 was a semi-automatic pistol issued to the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Koenigliche Armee cavalry during World War I. It was the first adoption of semi-automatic service pistol by a land army of major power.-Mechanism :The Roth-Steyr...
  
  

Submachine Guns

• Moschetto Automatico Beretta 1938
• OVP (firearm)
  OVP (firearm)
  The OVP was a light submachine gun developed in Italy.- Development :The Italians were the first army ever to adopt a submachine gun, or more correctly, a light automatic gun firing a pistol cartridge. This was the Villar Perosa that ceased to be a service weapon in 1918...
  
  
• FNAB-43
  FNAB-43
  The FNAB-43 is an Italian designed and developed submachinegun manufactured from 1943 to 1944. The first prototype was built in 1942 and the 7,000 built by the FNA-B were issued to German and Italian RSI units fighting in Northern Italy...
  
  
• TZ-45
  TZ-45
  The TZ-45 was an Italian made submachine gun produced in small numbers between 1944 and 1945, with an estimated 6,000 made.- History :The TZ-45 submachine guns was designed by two Italian brothers, Tonon and Zorzoli Giandoso, and was produced by their own small company. All the TZ 45's were issued...
  
  
• Beretta Model 1918
  Beretta Model 1918
  The Beretta Model 1918 was a submachine gun that entered service in 1918 with the Italian armed forces and came with an overhead inserted magazine. Another variant was the Model 1918/30 with the magazine inserted underneath and came with a bayonet...
  
  

Rifles

• Carcano M1891
  Carcano
  Carcano is the frequently used name for a series of Italian bolt-action military rifles and carbines. Introduced in 1891, this rifle was chambered for the rimless 6.5x52mm Mannlicher-Carcano Cartuccia Modello 1895 cartridge. It was developed by the chief technician Salvatore Carcano at the Turin...
  
  
• Carcano M1891 Moschetto da Cavalleria (Cavalry Carbine)
• Carcano M1891TS Moschetto per Truppe Speciali (Special Troop Carbine)
• Carcano M1938 Carbine
• Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
  Steyr-Mannlicher M1895
  The Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle is a bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher that used a refined version of his revolutionary straight-pull action. It was nicknamed the "Ruck-Zuck" by Landsers...
  
  

Machine Guns

• Breda Modello 30
  Breda 30
  The Fucile Mitragliatore Breda modello 30 was the standard light machine gun of the Royal Italian Army during World War II.The Breda 30 was rather unique for a light machine gun. It is magazine fed from the right side and the magazine was attached to the gun and was loaded using brass or steel 20...
  
  
• Fiat-Revelli Modello 1914
  Fiat-Revelli Modello 1914
  The Fiat-Revelli Modello 1914 was an Italian water-cooled medium machine gun produced from 1914 to 1918. It was used by the Italian Army in the First World War, and was used in limited numbers into the Second World War....
  
  
• Fiat-Revelli Modello 1935
  Fiat-Revelli Modello 1935
  The Fiat-Revelli 35 was a revised version of the Modello 1914, which had equipped the Italian Army of the Great War. The Modello 14 seems to have begun the Italian fascination with over-complicated loading systems and the need for lubricating rounds to prevent jamming, which often had the opposite...
  
  
• Breda Modello 1937
  Breda M37
  The Breda Modello 37 was an Italian heavy machine gun adopted in 1937. It was the standard machine gun for the Royal Italian Army during World War II...
  
  

Mortars

• Brixia Model 35
  Brixia Model 35
  - Description :The Brixia light mortar is a 45 mm calibre light mortar mounted on a legged base and designed for operation by two crew. The rear legs are fitted with a pad for the gunner to lay forward on behind the mortar, or sit upon when the situation allowed. A lever allowed for operating the...
  
  

Hand Grenades

• Bomba a Mano mod.35
• Bomba a Mano mod.42

 Empire of Japan Japan

Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan is the name of the state of Japan that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 to the enactment of the post-World War II Constitution of...

 

Handguns

• Nambu
  Nambu
  Nanbu may refer to:* Nanbu, Aomori, Japan* Nanbu, Tottori, Japan* Nanbu, Wakayama, in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan* Nanbu, Yamanashi, Japan* Nanbu County, Sichuan Province, China...
  
  
• Type 94
  Type 94
  Type 94 may refer to:* Type 94 tankette, a Japanese tank.* Type 94 8 mm Pistol* Type 94 37 mm Anti-Tank Gun* Type 94 75 mm Mountain Gun* Type 94 90 mm Infantry Mortar* Type 94 Disinfecting Vehicle and Type 94 Gas Scattering Vehicle...
  
  

Rifles

• Type 38
  Type 38
  Type 38 may refer to the following Japanese weapons:*Type 38 rifle*Type 38 cavalry rifle*Type 38 75 mm Field Gun*Type 38 10 cm Cannon*Type 38 15 cm howitzer...
  
  
• Arisaka Type 99
• Type 30 rifle
  Type 30 Rifle
  The Type 30 Rifle Arisaka was a bolt-action rifle that was the standard infantry rifle of the Japanese infantry from 1897 to 1905. It was the first rifle in the Arisaka family as well as the first to chamber the 6.5x50mm Arisaka round...
  
  

Submachine Guns

• Type 100 SMG
• Type II

 New Zealand

Handguns

• Smith & Wesson M&P
• Webley Revolver
  Webley Revolver
  The Webley Revolver was, in various marks, the standard issue service pistol for the armed forces of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the Commonwealths from 1887 until 1963.The Webley is a top-break revolver with automatic extraction...
  
  
• Enfield revolver
  Enfield revolver
  Enfield Revolver is the name applied to two totally separate models of self-extracting British handgun designed and manufactured at the government-owned Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield; initially the .476 calibre Revolver Enfield Mk I/Mk II revolvers , and later the .38/200 calibre Enfield No...
  
  

Rifles

• Lee Enfield
• Jungle Carbine
  Jungle Carbine
  Jungle Carbine was an informal term used for the Rifle No. 5 Mk I which was a derivative of the British Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk I, designed not for jungle fighting but in response to a requirement for a "Shortened, Lightened" version of the No.4 rifle for airborne forces in the European theatre of...
  
  

Submachine Guns

• Owen submachine gun
• Thompson submachine gun
  Thompson submachine gun
  The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals...
  
  
• Sten
  Sten
  The STEN was a family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War...
  
  

Machine guns

• Charlton Automatic Rifle
  Charlton Automatic Rifle
  The Charlton Automatic Rifle was a fully automatic conversion of the Lee-Enfield rifle, designed by New Zealander Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in chronically short supply at the time....
  
    (1500)
• Lewis gun
  Lewis Gun
  The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...
  
  
• Vickers machine gun
  Vickers machine gun
  Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 inch machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...
  
  

Anti-tank weapons

• Boys anti-tank rifle
• PIAT
  PIAT
  The Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank was a British hand-held anti-tank weapon developed during the Second World War. The PIAT was designed in 1942 in response to the British Army's need for a more effective infantry anti-tank weapon, and entered service in 1943.The PIAT was based on the spigot...
  
  

 Norway

Handguns

• Colt M1914
  Kongsberg Colt
  The Kongsberg Colt is a nickname used for Colt M1911 pistols produced under license by the Norwegian factory Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk.- History :...
  
  
• Nagant M1895
  Nagant M1895
  The Nagant M1895 Revolver is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when...
  
  
• Lahti L-35
  Lahti L-35
  Lahti L-35 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Finnish Aimo Lahti that was produced between 1935 and 1952. About 9000 pistols were made in four production series....
  
   (smuggled from Sweden & Finland)
• Walther P38 (Captured from German forces, used by the resistance)

Rifles

• Krag-Jørgensen
  Krag-Jørgensen
  The Krag-Jørgensen is a repeating bolt action rifle designed by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late 19th century. It was adopted as a standard arm by Denmark, the United States of America and Norway...
  
  
• M1917 Enfield (Parachuted to the resistance movement as Military aid)
• Pattern 1914 Enfield (parachuted to the resistance movement as Military aid)
• Lee-Enfield
  Lee-Enfield
  The Lee-Enfield bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century...
  
   (parachuted to the resistance movement as military aid)
• Karabiner 98k
  Karabiner 98k
  The Karabiner 98 Kurz was a bolt action rifle chambered for the 8x57mm IS/7.92×57mm IS cartridge that was adopted as the standard service rifle in 1935 by the German Wehrmacht. It was one of the final developments in the long line of Mauser military rifles...
  
   (captured from German forces, used by the Resistance)
• M1 Carbine
  M1 Carbine
  The M1 carbine is a lightweight, easy to use semi-automatic carbine that became a standard firearm for the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was produced in several variants. It was widely used by U.S...
  
   (Parachuted to the Resistance movement)
• AG-42
• Mosin-Nagant
  Mosin-Nagant
  The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....
  
   (smuggled from Finland & USSR, used by resistance in the North)
• Mas36 (leftover from French forces after the battle of Narvik, used by the resistance)

Submachine Guns

• Sten (Used by the post Norwegian Campaign
  Norwegian Campaign
  The Norwegian Campaign was a military campaign that was fought in Norway during the Second World War between the Allies and Germany, after the latter's invasion of the country. In April 1940, the United Kingdom and France came to Norway's aid with an expeditionary force...
  
   resistance
  Norwegian resistance movement
  The Norwegian resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms:...
  
  , not the army.)
• MP40
  MP40
  The MP 38 and MP 40 , often called Schmeisser, were submachine guns developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by paratroopers, tank crews, platoon and squad leaders, and other troops during World War II.-Development:The MP 40 descended from its predecessor, the MP 38, which was in turn based...
  
   (captured from German forces, used by resistance)
• Thompson M1928A1 (parachuted to the resistance movement as military aid)
• Madsen M50

Machine Guns

• Madsen M/22
  Madsen machine gun
  The Madsen was a light machine gun developed by Julius A. Rasmussen and Theodor Schoubue and proposed for adoption by Captain Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, the Danish Minister of War and adopted by the Danish Army in 1902...
  
  
• Colt M/29
• Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
  Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
  The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun became the standard machine gun of the French Army during World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established in the 1860s by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss...
  
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• Browning M1919
• MG34 (captured from German forces,used by the resistance)
• kg/1940 Light machine gun
  Kg/1940 Light machine gun
  The Kg m/40 was a light machine gun used by the Swedish Army during the 1940s. A small number were also manufactured in Germany by Knorr-Bremse for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS, under the name MG35/36A, though they were mostly called just "the Knorr-Bremse".The KG/1940 loaded its magazine from the...
  
  
• Weibel M/1932
  Weibel M/1932
  The Weibel M/1932 was a light machine gun concept of Danish origin and was considered to supplement the Madsen gun in Danish service. It was fed from a 20 round box magazine chambered in the intermediate 7x44mm round. This calibre was considered underpowered for its day but shares the same...
  
  

 Poland Poland

Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland refers to Poland between the two world wars; a period in Polish history in which Poland was restored as an independent state. Officially known as the Republic of Poland or the Commonwealth of Poland , the Polish state was...

 

Handguns

• Nagant M1895
  Nagant M1895
  The Nagant M1895 Revolver is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when...
  
  
• Radom Pistolet wz.35 Vis
  Vis (weapon)
  Vis is a 9 mm caliber, single-action, semi-automatic pistol...
  
  
• TT pistol
  TT-30
  TT-30 may refer to:*TT pistol, a Soviet semi-automatic pistol*NEMA TT–30, a type of mains electricity connector...
  
   (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East refers to military units composed of Poles created in the Soviet Union at the time when the territory of Poland was occupied by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War....
  
  )

Rifles

• Kbsp wz. 1938M
• Karabin wz.98a (kb wz.98a)
  Kb wz.98a
  Karabin wzor 98a was a Polish bolt-action rifle based on the German Gewehr 98.- Design History :After regaining independence, the Polish Army was armed with Russian , Austrian and German rifles...
  
  
• Karabinek wz.29 (kbk wz.29)
• rkm Browning wz.1928
  Browning wz.1928
  The Browning wz.1928 is a Polish version of the M1918 BAR. It was a light machine gun used by the Poles in World War II.-History:After Poland regained its independence in 1918, the Polish Army was equipped in all sorts of machine guns inherited after the armed forces of the partitioners, as well as...
  
  
• Lee Enfield (Used by the exiled army)
• Mosin–Nagant (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East refers to military units composed of Poles created in the Soviet Union at the time when the territory of Poland was occupied by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War....
  
  )

Submachine gun

• Bechowiec-1
  Bechowiec-1
  Bechowiec-1 was a Polish World War II machine pistol developed and produced by the underground Armia Krajowa resistance organisation. It was designed in 1943 by Henryk Strąpoć and was being produced in several underground facilities, mostly in the area of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski and Opatów Kielecki...
  
  
• Błyskawica (Used by the Polish Resistance)
• KIS (weapon)
  KIS (weapon)
  Kis was the name of a Polish machine pistol from the time of the Second World War. It was designed and manufactured by engineers in Jan Piwnik's "Ponury" guerrilla unit that was operating in Holy Cross Mountains region...
  
  
• Choroszmanów
• Samoróbka
• Teteryka
• Wz.39
• Sten
  Sten
  The STEN was a family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War...
  
   (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the West
  Polish Armed Forces in the West
  Polish Armed Forces in the West refers to the Polish military formations formed to fight alongside the Western Allies against Nazi Germany and its allies...
  
  )
• PPS
  PPS submachine gun
  The PPS was a family of Soviet submachine guns chambered in 7.62x25mm Tokarev, developed by Alexei Sudayev as a low-cost personal defense weapon for reconnaissance units, vehicle crews and support service personnel.The PPS and its variants were used extensively by the Red...
  
   (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East refers to military units composed of Poles created in the Soviet Union at the time when the territory of Poland was occupied by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War....
  
  
• PPSh-41
  PPSh-41
  The PPSh-41 was a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgi Shpagin as an inexpensive, simplified alternative to the PPD-40. Intended for use by minimally-trained conscript soldiers, the PPSh was a magazine-fed selective-fire submachine gun using an open-bolt, blowback action...
  
   (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East refers to military units composed of Poles created in the Soviet Union at the time when the territory of Poland was occupied by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War....
  
  )

Machine Guns

• Ckm wz.30
  Ckm wz.30
  Ckm wz.30 is a Polish-made clone of the American Browning M1917 heavy machine gun...
  
  
• Machine gun Type C
• Bren
  Bren
  The Bren, usually called the Bren Gun, was a series of light machine guns adopted by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles until 1991...
  
   (Used by the exiled army)
• DP (Used by Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East
  Polish Armed Forces in the East refers to military units composed of Poles created in the Soviet Union at the time when the territory of Poland was occupied by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War....
  
  )

Anti-Tank Weapons

• Kb ppanc wz.35
  Kb ppanc wz.35
  Karabin przeciwpancerny wzór 35 , also Uruguay, was a Polish 7.9 mm anti-tank rifle used by the Polish Army during the Invasion of Poland of 1939...
  
  

Grenades

• Fragmentation Grenade wz.1933
• Concussion Grenade wz.1933

Flamethrower

• K pattern flamethrower
  K pattern flamethrower
  The K pattern was a man-portable backpack flamethrower, produced in occupied Poland during World War II for the underground Home Army...
  
   (Used by the polish resistance)

Grenade launcher

• Granatnik wz.36
  Granatnik wz.36
  The Granatnik wz.36 was a Polish grenade launcher designed in originally in 1920 as "wz.30" and later modified in 1936. It entered service in 1936 becoming the standard grenade launcher of the Polish Army; it was still in use during the German invasion of Poland in 1939....
  
  

Melee Weapons

• Lance
  Lance
  A Lance is a pole weapon or spear designed to be used by a mounted warrior. The lance is longer, stout and heavier than an infantry spear, and unsuited for throwing, or for rapid thrusting. Lances did not have tips designed to intentionally break off or bend, unlike many throwing weapons of the...
  
   (Polish Cavalry) secondary weapon close quarters combat

Swords

• Szabla
  Szabla
  Szabla is the Polish word for sabre. It specifically refers to an Eastern European one-edged sabre-like mêlée weapon with a curved blade and, in most cases, a two-bladed tip called a feather . Initially used by light cavalry, with time it also evolved into a variety of arms used both for martial...
  
   (Polish Cavalry) secondary weapon close quarters combat

 Kingdom of Romania Romania

Kingdom of Romania

The Kingdom of Romania was the Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between 13 March 1881 and 30 December 1947, specified by the first three Constitutions of Romania...

 

Handguns

• Ruby pistol
  Ruby pistol
  The self-loading Ruby pistol is best known as a French World War I sidearm, the Pistolet Automatique de 7 millim.65 genre "Ruby". A very international piece of weaponry, it was closely modeled after the American John Browning's M1903 made by the Belgian Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, and was...
  
  
• Beretta M 1934

Rifles

• vz.24
• Karabiner 98k
  Karabiner 98k
  The Karabiner 98 Kurz was a bolt action rifle chambered for the 8x57mm IS/7.92×57mm IS cartridge that was adopted as the standard service rifle in 1935 by the German Wehrmacht. It was one of the final developments in the long line of Mauser military rifles...
  
  
• Mosin-Nagant
  Mosin-Nagant
  The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....
  
  

Submachine guns

• Orita M1941
  Orita M1941
  Orita was a 9mm submachine gun manufactured in Romania during World War II and for several years afterwards. It was named for Captain Marin Orița , who is credited in Romania with its design...
  
  
• PPSh 41

 Soviet Union

Handguns

• Nagant M1895
  Nagant M1895
  The Nagant M1895 Revolver is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when...
  
  
• Tokarev TT-30/TT-33
  TT-33
  The TT-30 is a Russian semi-automatic pistol. It was developed in the early 1930s by Fedor Tokarev as a service pistol for the Soviet military to replace the Nagant M1895 revolver that had been in use since tsarist times, though it never fully replaced the M1895.-Development:In 1930, the...
  
  

Rifles

• Mosin-Nagant M1891/30, M1938, M1944
  Mosin-Nagant
  The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....
  
  
• Tokarev SVT-38, SVT-40
  SVT40
  The Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva, Obrazets 1940 goda is a Soviet semi-automatic battle rifle which saw widespread service during and after World War II....
  
  
• AVS-36
• Fedorov Avtomat
  Fedorov Avtomat
  The Fedorov Avtomat was an early assault rifle designed by Vladimir Grigoryevich Fedorov and produced in Russia in 1916. It was the first practical assault rifle to be adopted, and this concept would later become the basis for the first assault rifle to incorporate a modern layout, the StG 44...
  
   Fully auto
• STG-44 Fully auto

Submachine Guns

• PPD-40
  PPD-40
  The PPD is a submachine gun originally designed in 1934. The PPD had a conventional wooden stock, fired from an open bolt, and was capable of selective fire....
  
  
• PPSh-41
  PPSh-41
  The PPSh-41 was a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgi Shpagin as an inexpensive, simplified alternative to the PPD-40. Intended for use by minimally-trained conscript soldiers, the PPSh was a magazine-fed selective-fire submachine gun using an open-bolt, blowback action...
  
  
• PPS
  PPS submachine gun
  The PPS was a family of Soviet submachine guns chambered in 7.62x25mm Tokarev, developed by Alexei Sudayev as a low-cost personal defense weapon for reconnaissance units, vehicle crews and support service personnel.The PPS and its variants were used extensively by the Red...
  
  
• MP 40 (Captured from German forces)

Machine Guns

• DP-28 Light Machine Gun
  Degtyarev light machine gun
  The Пулемёт Дегтярёвa Пехотный or DP was a light machine gun firing the 7.62x54mmR cartridge that was used by the Soviet Union starting in 1928. It was cheap and easy to manufacture - early models had fewer than 80 parts and could be built by unskilled labour. The DP was especially able to...
  
  
• DShK 1938 Heavy Machine Gun
  DShK
  The DShK 1938 is a Soviet heavy machine gun firing the 12.7x108mm cartridge. The weapon was also used as a heavy infantry machine gun, in which case it was frequently deployed with a two-wheeled mounting and a single-sheet armour-plate shield...
  
  
• DS-39
  DS-39
  DS-39 was a Soviet medium machine gun, designed by Vasily Degtyaryov, that was used during the Second World War. The work on the gun's design began in 1930, and it was accepted by the Red Army in September, 1939...
  
  
• Maxim PM1910 Medium Machine Gun
  Russian M1910 Maxim
  The PM M1910 was a heavy machine gun used by the Russian Army during World War I and the Red Army during World War II. It was adopted in 1910 and was derived from Hiram Maxim's Maxim gun, chambered for the standard Russian 7.62x54mmR rifle cartridge...
  
  
• SG-43 Goryunov
• MG-42 (Captured from German forces)

Anti-Tank Weapons

• PTRD-41 Bolt-action Anti-Tank Rifle
  PTRD
  The PTRD-41 was an anti-tank rifle produced and used from early 1941 by the Soviet Red Army during World War II. It was a single-shot weapon which fired a 14.5x114mm round...
  
  
• PTRS-41 Semi-Automatic Anti-Tank Rifle
  PTRS-41
  The PTRS-41 is the semi-automatic cousin of the PTRD anti-tank rifle.-Design:The PTRS-41 was produced and used by the Soviet Union during World War II. In the years between the World Wars, Soviet Union began experimenting with different types of armour-piercing anti-tank cartridges...
  
  

Grenades

• F1 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
• RGD-33 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
  RGD-33 Grenade
  The Soviet RGD-33 is an anti-personnel fragmentation stick grenade developed in 1933. It was designed to replace the aging Model 1914 grenade and was used during World War II....
  
  
• RG-41 Anti-Tank Hand Grenade
  RG-41
  The Soviet RG-41 stick grenade was an anti-tank weapon developed during World War II. It contained a 150 g high explosive charge. The total weight of the grenade with the fuse was about 0.44 kilograms. It used the 3.5 to 4 second UZRGM fuze...
  
  
• RG-42 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
  RG-42
  The Soviet RG-42 was a fragmentation grenade originally introduced during World War II as an emergency measure, continuing in use with the USSR and its Warsaw Pact allies in the post-war period. It contained about 200 grams of explosive charge in a cylindrical can. The grenade could be thrown...
  
  
• RPG-43 HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) Hand Grenade
  RPG-43
  The RPG-43 was a high explosive anti-tank hand grenade used by the Soviet Union during the Second World War. It entered service in 1943, replacing the earlier model RPG-40. The RPG-43 used a shaped charge HEAT warhead, whereas the RPG-40 used the simpler HE warhead...
  
  
• RPG-6 HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) Hand Grenade
  RPG-6
  The RPG-6 was a Soviet anti-tank hand-grenade operating on the shaped charge principle, developed during World War II...
  
  
• Molotov Cocktail
  Molotov cocktail
  The Molotov cocktail, also known as the petrol bomb, gasoline bomb, Molotov bomb, fire bottle, fire bomb, or simply Molotov, is a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons...
  
  

Flamethrowers

• ROKS-2
• ROKS-3

Sniper Rifles

• Mosin-Nagant M1891/30, M1938, M1944
  Mosin-Nagant
  The Mosin–Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations....
  
   (scoped)
• Tokarev SVT-38, SVT-40
  SVT40
  The Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva, Obrazets 1940 goda is a Soviet semi-automatic battle rifle which saw widespread service during and after World War II....
  
  (scoped)

Swords

• Shashka

Knife

• NR-40
  NR-40
  The NR-40 was a Soviet combat knife introduced in 1940 and used throughout World War II. The NR-40 has a 152 mm blade with a clip point, a large choil, a black wooden handle, and an S-shaped guard...
  
  

 United Kingdom

Handguns

• Enfield Revolver No.2 Mk.I
  Enfield revolver
  Enfield Revolver is the name applied to two totally separate models of self-extracting British handgun designed and manufactured at the government-owned Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield; initially the .476 calibre Revolver Enfield Mk I/Mk II revolvers , and later the .38/200 calibre Enfield No...
  
  
• Webley Mk.VI (.455) & Mk.IV (.38/200)
  Webley Revolver
  The Webley Revolver was, in various marks, the standard issue service pistol for the armed forces of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the Commonwealths from 1887 until 1963.The Webley is a top-break revolver with automatic extraction...
  
  
• Browning FN-Inglis No.2 Mk.I* Pistol
  Browning Hi-Power
  The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. It is based on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at Fabrique Nationale of Herstal, Belgium. Browning died in 1926, several years before the design was finalized...
  
  
• Smith & Wesson M&P
• Colt M1911A1

Rifles

• Short Magazine Lee-Enfield
  Lee-Enfield
  The Lee-Enfield bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century...
  
  
• Rifle No. 5 Mk I
  Jungle Carbine
  Jungle Carbine was an informal term used for the Rifle No. 5 Mk I which was a derivative of the British Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk I, designed not for jungle fighting but in response to a requirement for a "Shortened, Lightened" version of the No.4 rifle for airborne forces in the European theatre of...
  
  
• Pattern 14 (P14) "No.3"
• M1 carbine
  M1 Carbine
  The M1 carbine is a lightweight, easy to use semi-automatic carbine that became a standard firearm for the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was produced in several variants. It was widely used by U.S...
  
  

Submachine guns

• Sten
  Sten
  The STEN was a family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War...
  
   - about 4 million produced from all sources
• Lanchester
• Thompson M1928, M1928A1, M1
  Thompson submachine gun
  The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals...
  
  

Machine Guns

• Bren light machine gun
• Lewis light machine gun
  Lewis Gun
  The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...
  
  
• Vickers K machine gun
  Vickers K machine gun
  Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers K machine gun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated in British service, was a rapid-firing machine gun developed and manufactured for use in aircraft by Vickers-Armstrongs...
  
  
• Vickers machine gun
  Vickers machine gun
  Not to be confused with the Vickers light machine gunThe Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 inch machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...
  
  
• Besa machine gun
  Besa machine gun
  The Besa Machine Gun was a British version of the Czechoslovak ZB-53 air-cooled, belt-fed machine-gun, which in the Czechoslovak army was marked as the TK vz. 37...
  
  
• M2 Browning machine gun

Anti-Tank Weapons

• Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank
  PIAT
  The Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank was a British hand-held anti-tank weapon developed during the Second World War. The PIAT was designed in 1942 in response to the British Army's need for a more effective infantry anti-tank weapon, and entered service in 1943.The PIAT was based on the spigot...
  
   (PIAT)
• Rifle, Anti-Tank, .55 in, Boys

Grenades

• No.36M Mk.I
  Mills bomb
  Mills bomb is the popular name for a series of prominent British hand grenades. They were the first modern fragmentation grenades in the world.-Overview:...
  
   Fragmentation Hand/Rifle Grenade or "Mills Bomb"
• Grenade, Rifle No. 68 AT
  No. 68 AT Grenade
  The Grenade, Rifle No. 68 /AT was a British anti-tank rifle grenade used during World War II.-Overview:The No. 68 was an early form of shaped charge grenade, and has some claim to have been the first High Explosive, Anti Tank device in use...
  
   - HEAT anti-tank rifle grenade
• No.69 Mk.I Bakelite Concussion Hand Grenade
  No. 69 grenade
  The British No 69 was an offensive hand grenade developed and used during World War II. It was adopted into service due to the need for a grenade with smaller destructive radius than the No 36M "Mills bomb". This allowed the thrower to use a grenade even when there was little in the way of...
  
  
• No.76 Special Incendiary Phosphorus Hand Grenade
  No. 76 Special Incendiary Grenade
  The No. 76 Special Incendiary Grenade also commonly known as the A.W. bomb or SIP Grenade was an incendiary grenade based on white phosphorus used during World War II....
  
  
• No.73 Anti-Tank Hand Grenade
  No. 73 Grenade
  The No. 73 grenade, also known as the Thermos or Woolworth bomb, was a British anti-tank grenade used during the Second World War. It got its nickname from the resemblance to a Thermos flask.-Development:...
  
   "Thermos Grenade"
• No.74 ST Grenade
  Sticky bomb
  The Grenade, Hand, Anti-Tank No. 74, commonly known as the sticky bomb, was a British hand grenade designed and produced during the Second World War. The grenade was one of a number of anti-tank weapons developed for use by the British Army and Home Guard as an ad hoc solution to a lack of...
  
  , or "Sticky Bomb" - an anti-tank hand grenade
• No.75 Anti-Tank Hand Grenade
  Hawkins grenade
  The Grenade, Hand, Anti-tank, No. 75, also known as the Hawkins grenade was a British anti-tank hand grenade used during World War II. It was one of a number of grenades developed for use by the British Army and Home Guard in the aftermath of the Dunkirk evacuation...
  
   known as "Hawkins Grenade" or "Hawkins Mine"
• No.77 (White Phosphorus) Hand Grenade
  No 77 grenade
  The No. 77 Grenade was a British white phosphorus grenade used during the Second World War. The No. 77 was introduced in 1943 and consisted of 8 ounces of white phosphorus, an impact fuse and a tin casing. It was intended for laying down smoke screens and as a signalling device...
  
  
• No.82 Hand Grenade
  Gammon bomb
  The Gammon bomb, officially known as the No. 82 grenade was a British hand grenade used during World War II.-Overview:Designed by Capt. R.S. Gammon MC of the 1st Parachute Regiment, the Gammon bomb was developed as a replacement for the temperamental and highly dangerous "sticky bomb" grenade...
  
   - known as "Gammon Grenade/Bomb"

Mortars

• 2-inch mortar
• Ordnance ML 3 inch Mortar
  Ordnance ML 3 inch Mortar
  The Ordnance ML 3-inch mortar was the United Kingdom's standard mortar used by the British Army from the late 1920s to the late 1960s, superseding the Stokes Mortar.-History:...
  
  

Flamethrowers

• No.II Mk.II Flamethrower
  Flamethrower, Portable, No 2
  The Flamethrower, Portable, No 2 , also known as the Ack Pack, was a British design of flamethrower for infantry use in the Second World War...
  
   "Lifebuoy"

Sniper rifles

• Lee-Enfield
  Lee-Enfield
  The Lee-Enfield bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century...
  
   (scoped)
• Pattern 1914 (scoped)

Knives

• Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife
  Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife
  The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is a double-edged fighting knife resembling a dagger or poignard with a foil grip developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes in Shanghai based on concepts which the two men initiated before World War II while serving on the Shanghai Municipal...
  
  

 United States

Handguns

• Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
  Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
  The Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless is .32 ACP caliber, self-loading, semi-automatic pistol designed by John Browning and built by Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut...
  
  
• Colt M1911A1
• Colt M1917 revolver
  M1917 revolver
  The M1917 Revolver was a U.S. six-shot revolver of .45 ACP caliber. It was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1917 to supplement the standard M1911 .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol during World War I. Afterwards, it was primarily used by secondary and non-deployed troops...
  
  
• Colt Official Police
  Colt Official Police
  Introduced to the firearms market in 1927, The Colt Official Police is a medium frame, six-shot, double-action revolver with a six round cylinder, primarily chambered for the .38 Special cartridge, and manufactured by the Colt's Manufacturing Company...
  
   {Colt M1927 Aka "Colt Commando"}
• FP-45 Liberator
  FP-45 Liberator
  Not to be confused with the EMD FP45 diesel locomotive.The FP-45 Liberator was a pistol manufactured by the United States military during World War II for use by resistance forces in occupied territories.-History:...
  
  
• Smith & Wesson M&P

Rifles

• M1 Garand
• M1 Carbine
  M1 Carbine
  The M1 carbine is a lightweight, easy to use semi-automatic carbine that became a standard firearm for the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was produced in several variants. It was widely used by U.S...
  
  
• M1903 Springfield
• M1917 Enfield rifle
  M1917 Enfield rifle
  The M1917 Enfield, the "American Enfield" , formally named "United States Rifle, cal .30, Model of 1917" was an American modification and production of the British .303 caliber P14 rifle developed and manufactured during the period 1917-1918.-History:Before World War I developed, the British had as...
  
  
• M1941 Johnson rifle
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle

Submachine Guns

• Thompson M1928, M1928A1, M1, M1A1
  Thompson submachine gun
  The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight in the media of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals...
  
  
• M3/A1 'Grease Gun'
  M3 submachine gun
  The M3 was an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted for U.S. Army service on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. The M3 was designed as a more cost-effective alternative to the Thompson, optimized for mass production...
  
  
• M50 Reising submachine gun
• United Defense M42
  United Defense M42
  The United Defense M42 was an American submachine gun in World War II. It was produced from 1942 to 1943 by United Defense Supply Corp. for possible issue as a replacement for the Thompson submachine gun and was used by agents of the Office of Strategic Services .-History:The M42 was developed by...
  
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Machine Guns

• Browning M1917A1 Heavy Machine Gun
• Browning M1919 Medium Machine Gun
  M1919 Browning machine gun
  The M1919 Browning is a .30 caliber medium machine gun that was widely used during the 20th century. It was used as a light infantry, coaxial, mounted, aircraft, and anti-aircraft machine gun by the U.S. and many other countries, especially during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War...
  
  
• Browning M2 Heavy Machine Gun
• M1941 Johnson machine gun
• Lewis gun
  Lewis Gun
  The Lewis Gun is a World War I–era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and widely used by the British Empire. It was first used in combat in World War I, and continued in service with a number of armed forces through to the end of the Korean War...
  
  

Sniper Rifles

• M1 Garand (scoped)
• M1903 Springfield (scoped)
• M1917 Enfield
  M1917 Enfield rifle
  The M1917 Enfield, the "American Enfield" , formally named "United States Rifle, cal .30, Model of 1917" was an American modification and production of the British .303 caliber P14 rifle developed and manufactured during the period 1917-1918.-History:Before World War I developed, the British had as...
  
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Shotgun (Commonly used by the Marines in the Pacific theater

Pacific War

The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, then called the Far East...

, limited use in Europe)

• Ithaca 37
  Ithaca 37
  The Ithaca 37 is a pump-action shotgun made in large numbers for the civilian, military, and police markets. It utilizes a novel combination ejection/loading port on the bottom of the gun which leaves the sides closed to the elements. In addition, the outline of the gun is clean...
  
  
• Trench gun M1897
  Winchester Model 1897
  The Winchester Model 1897, also known as the Model 97, M97, or Trench Gun, was a pump-action shotgunwith an external hammer and tube magazine manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The Model 1897 was an evolution of the Winchester Model 1893 designed by John Browning. From 1897...
  
   (Used in the Western front
  Western Front
  Western Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the contested armed frontier between lands controlled by Germany to the east and the Allies to the west...
  
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• M12 Shotgun
  Winchester Model 1912
  The Winchester Model 1912 is a hammerless slide-action, i.e., pump-action, shotgun with an external tube magazine. Popularly-named the Perfect Repeater at its introduction, it largely set the standard for pump action shotguns over its 51 year high-rate production life...
  
  
• Browning Auto-5
  Browning Auto-5
  The Browning Automatic 5, most often Auto-5 or simply A-5, is a recoil-operated semi-automatic shotgun designed by John Browning. It was the first successful semi-automatic shotgun designed and remained in production until 1998...
  
  
• Coach gun
  Coach gun
  A coach gun is a double-barrel shotgun, generally with barrels approximately 18" in length placed side by side . The name comes from the use of such shotguns on stagecoaches by shotgun messengers in the American Wild West and during the Colonial period of Australia.-History:The term "Coach gun"...
  
  
• Remington 31

Anti-Tank Weapons

• Rocket Launcher, M1/A1 "Bazooka"
  Bazooka
  Bazooka is the common name for a man-portable recoilless rocket antitank weapon, widely fielded by the U.S. Army. Also referred to as the "Stovepipe", the innovative bazooka was amongst the first-generation of rocket propelled anti-tank weapons used in infantry combat...
  
  
• M18 recoilless rifle
  M18 recoilless rifle
  The M18 recoilless rifle was a 57 mm shoulder fired anti-tank recoilless rifle used by the U.S. Army in World War II and the Korean War. Recoilless rifles are capable of firing artillery-type shells at reduced velocities comparable to those of standard cannon, but with greater accuracy than...
  
  

Flamethrowers

• M2 flamethrower
  M2 flamethrower
  The M2 flamethrower was an American man-portable backpack flamethrower that was used in World War II. It was the successor to the M1 and M1A1 flamethrowers. Although its actual "burn time" was around 47 seconds and the flame was only effective out to around 20 metres , it was still a functional...
  
  

Grenades

• Mk.2 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
  Mk 2 grenade
  The Mk 2 defensive hand grenade is a fragmentation hand grenade used by the U.S. armed forces during World War II and in later conflicts including the Vietnam War. The Mk II was standardized in 1920 replacing the Mk I of 1917. It was phased out gradually, the U.S. Navy being the last users...
  
  

Grenade launcher

• M7 grenade launcher
  M7 grenade launcher
  The M7 grenade launcher, formally Rifle Grenade Launcher, M7 was a 22 mm rifle grenade launcher attachment for the M1 Garand rifle which saw widespread use throughout World War II and the Korean War. The M7 was a tube-shaped device, one end that slotting over the barrel of the rifle, the other end...
  
  

Mortars

• M1 Mortar
  M1 Mortar
  The M1 is a United States 81 millimeter caliber mortar. It was used during World War II well into the 1950s when it was replaced by the lighter and longer ranged M29 Mortar...
  
  
• M2 4.2 inch mortar
  M2 4.2 inch mortar
  -External links:* early detailed article on 4.2 mortar...
  
  
• M2 Mortar
  M2 Mortar
  The M2 Mortar is a smoothbore, muzzle loading, high-angle-of-fire weapon used by U.S. forces in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War for light infantry support.-Description:...
  
  

Knife

• Ka-Bar
  KA-BAR
  KA-BAR is the contemporary popular name for the combat knife first adopted by the United States Marine Corps in November 1942 as the 1219C2 Combat Knife , and subsequently adopted by the United States Navy as the U.S. Navy Utility Knife, Mark 2...
  
  
• M1 bayonet
  M1 Bayonet
  The M1 Bayonet was designed to be used with the .30 caliber U.S. Rifle M1. The blade is 10 inches long, and the handle is 4 inches long....
  
  
• M1905 bayonet
  M1905 Bayonet
  The M1905 Bayonet was designed to be used with the .30 caliber U.S. M1903 Springfield rifle. Variants of the M1903 rifle were produced during World War I and World War II by Springfield Armory, Remington Arms, Rock Island Arsenal, and Smith-Corona Typewriter. The blade is 16 inches long, and the...
  
  
• M1942 bayonet
  M1942 Bayonet
  The M1942 Bayonet was designed to be used with the .30 caliber U.S. Rifle M1, or M1 Garand. The blade is 16 inches long and the handle is 4 inches long....
  
  
• Mark I trench knife
  Mark I trench knife
  The Mark I trench knife was an American trench knife designed by officers of the American Expeditionary Force for use in World War I. It had a double edged dagger blade useful for both thrusting and slashing strokes, unlike previous U.S. trench knives such as the M1917 and M1918. The handle is...
  
  
• V-42 Stiletto
  V-42 Stiletto
  The V-42 Stiletto was a stiletto and fighting knife issued during World War II to the First Special Service Force , a joint Canadian/American commando unit.-Design and Features:...
  
  
• United States Marine Raider Stiletto