Weapons from WWII. It really made a difference
Today, my school rowing team went laser tagging. I had a very difficulties with shooting people, but soon, I was able to snipe people from a great distance with my Semi-automatic Laser Blaster! Then after I came home, I wanted to do some research about Weapons from WWII. Then I found out numerous hidden story treasures behind every weapons.
We’ll start our journey from M1 Garand
Most of you will recognize M1 Garand, since it was highly popular as one of the allied rifles. M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle was designed by John C. Garand (Apparentlly he was Canadian) from United States. It was the first successful semi-automatic rifle that was made from US Army. It was durable, accurate, and it was extremely easy to handle. One thing that gave Americans a huge advantage was that it had 8 rounds of clip to influence and put the enemy down, where as the enemy had only 1 due to their bolt-action rifles like Kar 98. This gave Americans a huge benefit. It even served in Korean War and even in Vietnam War! M1 Garand might be a strong rifle, but it had one imperfection. Its Achilles heels was the “pinging sound” it made after firing the last shot. M1 Garand does not have a magazine to hold its bullets. Instead, it used a clip to hold the bullets together when loaded on the rifle. As a result, after the last shot is fired, the clip automatically ejects itself making a loud distinctive audible noise. When this noise was made, it was clear to everyone, including the Germans, that you’re out. When German soldiers heard this noise, they quickly returned fire. Americans quickly caught up. Soon, they turned this imperfection into an advantage. What they did was, they would fake the pinging sound, so that when the German soldiers lifted their heads to return the fire, Americans quickly gunned them down.
Mauser Karabiner 98k (kar98k)
This 100 years old weapon was held by most of the German soldiers and it was manufactured by Germany. Believe it or not, this weapon was so accurate and powerful that it was even recommended as the weapon of choice for the assisination of Adolf Hitler. Unlike M1 Garand, this rifle was a bolt action rifle, which means that each time the fired bullet had to be manually ejected from the bolt. (this gave them a slower rate of fire than M1 Garand) It was able to hold 5 rounds each clip. Because of its boltaction technology, it was extremely strong. Because of its reputation of accuracy and powerfulness, it was recommended as the weapon of choice for the assisination of the world’s biggest villan, Adolf Hitler, in 1943. The British intelligence was planning on using 2 elite snipers, desguised as german soldiers, to shoot down Hitler. If this plan failed, they were planning on bazuka attack on Hitler’s black bullet proof Mercedez. However, in 1944, they droppted the assination plan. Believe it or not, the reason was that Allied intelligence thought that Hitler’s leadership was destroying Germany better than Allied could.
Sturmgewehr 44 (stg44, mp43)
Sturmgewhr 44 is the first assault rifle ever made. This weapon triggered the concept of “assault rifle”. This weapon was so unique and revolutionary that it was kept secrete from Hitler. As the battle in WWII took place usually in close to mid range setting, German techticians were thinking about which weapons they should distribute to their soldiers. They needed a weapon that could fire fast, accurate, and have more power than submachine guns. As a result, they made STG44, an assault rifle. After this weapon was produced, the weapon designer had to convince HItler. However, for some reason, Hitler thought that Germany’s submachine gun was good enough, so the project was terminated. Even though the project was terminated, the weapon designer secretely produced and distributed the weapon. This powerful weapon gave Germany a huge advantage, but was kept secret from Hitler. 1943 as Hitler was inspecting his soldiers, he found about this weapon. He then realized about how powerful this weapon was, so he began to allow mass production of STG44. However, the war was almost over. If Hitler realized how powerful this weapon was earlier, who knows? Maybe Hitler might have won the war. The production of Sturmgewhr44 triggered the production of AK47, AUG, and other assault rifles.
Here are some of the weapons that were used in WWII. If I had more time, i would have written more about it. Maybe I will write more someday. Anyways this is it for now.
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