Photos of World War II Weapons | World War II Database

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9 cm Flak 309/1(i) anti-aircraft gun and its German crew on the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia, Italy, Jul-Aug 1944	A French field full of German helmets after their original owners, captured by the Americans, marched them to a prisoner of war camp, Normandy, France, 1944

A German 38 cm Siegfried K (E) railway gun destroyed by American aircraft, Rhône Valley, France, 1944	Aerial photographer United States Army Captain Russell Lee posing with his Fairchild K-20 aerial camera.

An American officer and a French partisan with a Sten sub-machinegun crouched behind a car during a street fight in a French city, Jun 1944	British troops loading an Ordinance QR six-pound field gun through the side door of a Horsa I glider, location unknown, 1944.

Camouflaged German paratrooper with Panzerfaust, France, Jun-Jul 1944	Canadian Army photographer Lieutenant George Cooper speaking with Captain R. T. Miller and his Humber LRC Mk III crew near Caen, France, Jul 1944

Columns of troop-packed American LCI landing craft in the wake of a USCG-manned LST en route to Cape Sansapor, New Guinea, mid-1944	French militia escorting captured resistance fighters, France, Jul 1944

German 150-mm artillery position Cherbourg, France, circa Jul 1944	German and Italian prisoners of war from the Normandy campaign en route Britain on the battleship USS Texas, Jun 1944. Some are sitting due to seasickness. Note guard holding a Reising M50 submachinegun.

German paratrooper with FG 42 rifle, France, summer 1944	German paratrooper with Kar98k rifle with grenade launcher, France, summer 1944

German paratroopers in France, summer 1944; note FG 42 rifle and Model 24 grenades	German paratroopers with a 15 cm NbW 41 rocket launcher in France, summer 1944

German prisoners on the Minsk-Smolensk highway, Jul 1944; note Russian soldier with PPSh-41 submachine gun in foreground and abandoned Tiger I heavy tank in background	German sergeant in exercise with a Panzerfaust anti-tank weapon, France or Belgium, Jun-Jul 1944

German sergeant posing with Panzerfaust weapon, Jun-Jul 1944; note tank destruction badge on the sleeve	Grumman TBF Avenger firing HVAR air-to-surface rockets at a United States test range, mid-1944.