1. WEAPONS OF WAR

3. ADVANCES IN FIRE POWER • WORLD WAR 2 SAW THE GREATEST ADVANCES IN HUMAN HISTORY • BIGGER BETTER FASTER MORE DEADLY WEAPONS • FROM PROP TO JET • FROM SINGLE SHOT TO RAPID FIRE • FROM BOMB TO NAPALM TO A-BOMB

4. TANKS THE ARMOURED BEASTS OF WAR

5. T-34 medium tank • Perhaps the best overall tank in all of the War • Most advanced tank design in the world • 6 main variants • Often captured and used by Germans • 85mm guns

6. RUSSIAN T-34

8. T-34

9. RUSSIAN KV-85

10. RUSSIAN SU 76

11. Panzer I -A very small light tank (6 tons) out of service by 41’ • Panzer II-Light Tank (10Tons) • Fast recon tank, amphibious with propeller • Flammpanzer-flame thrower tank

12. Panzer III-Medium tank (22 Tons) • Main tank 40-42 • 37 mm gun • T-34 made it worthless (50 mm) • 15,000 produced • Panzer IV- Medium Tank (25 Tons) • Short 75mm Gun, 2 machine guns • 9,000 produced • Hitler’s decision not o produce more

13. Tiger-Most famous and most formidable of the war—Heavy tank (55 tons) • 88 mm guns-anti-tank and anti-aircraft • Originally the Panzer VI • Slower than early Panzers • Very Short range due to fuel consumption • UNMATCHED FIRE POWER • Panther- (Panzer 5) a heavy tank (45 Tons) • Designed to counter the T-34 • 75mm gun and 2 machine guns • 4,800 produced Rushed to war untested • Considered best of the German Tanks • First battle was Kursk

14. KING TIGER • HEAVY TANK WITH A 88 MM GUN, BUT WITH ARMOUR PIERCING ABILITY • COMPLETED IN 1943 • 485 PRODUCED, USED IN RUSSIA AND FRANCE IN 1944 • WEIGHED 69 TONS, VERY SLOW

15. PANZER I

16. PANZER II

17. PANZER III

18. PANZER IV

19. PANTHER

20. TIGER

21. KING TIGER

22. Cruiser Mk IV • Crusader II Medium Tank • Mark VII Churchill • CRUISER COMET=BEST OVERALL OF BRITISH TANKS

23. CHURCHILL TANK

24. VALENTINE

25. CROMWELL

26. CROMWELL

27. CRUISER COMET

28. M4 SHERMAN TANK (32 tons) • M4 Sherman tank was a winner by numbers, not by quality • 30,000 M4 Sherman's versus 600 Tigers and King Tigers and 1500 Panthers • 75mm or 76mm guns • Many variants of the Sherman for every possible role

29. AMERICAN SHERMAN

30. T-28 • No conventional turret, giving it a comparatively low profile • Top speed of about 8 mph • 105 mm gun • 2 were ordered and none saw combat

32. Type 89 Otsu

36. ARTILLERY&ANTI-PERSONNEL

37. INFAMOUS 88’S

38. GERMAN BIG GUNS “ANZIO ANNIES”

39. GERMAN INFANTRY WEAPONS WALTHER P38 LUGER

40. Mauser MG34/41 'Spandau’ MP44 'Sturmgewehr'

41. MP 40 Schmeisser

42. Kar 98k Gewehr 43

43. MP43 FG42

44. 'Burp Gun' MG 42

46. “STOVEPIPE” Panzerschreck

47. ANTI-AIRCRAFT 38

48. British Infantry Weapons Thompson

49. Enfield Number 2, Mark I

50. The Bren Gun Short Magazine Lee Enfield