Photos of World War II Weapons | World War II Database

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Jürgen Stroop (center) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, on Nowolipie Street near intersection of Smocza Street, Poland, Apr-May 1943; note Karl Kaleske or Erich Steidtmann next to him, Heinrich Klaustermeyer (with MP 40), and Josef Blösche (with MP 28)	Mark XIII aerial torpedo after bodies in the torpedo storage spaces of the USS Yorktown (Essex-class) during Yorktown’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, May 1943

Oerlikon and 5-inch mounts aboard USS Iowa during her shakedown cruise off east coast of the United States, May 1943	Rear smokestack of USS Iowa at work during shakedown cruise on the east coast of the United States, May 1943; note quad Bofors mount in foreground

Soviet Baltic Fleet sailors with orphan Lucy, Leningrad, Russia, May 1943	Jeep, WC-4 truck, and 37 mm Gun M3 of US 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion, Camp Carson, Colorado, United States, 1 May 1943

Soviet A-19 field gun being towed by a tractor in the village of Izvekova near Vyazma, Russia, 1 Mar 1943	Bob Feller posing before a 40mm Bofors quad mount aboard a ship, possibly USS Alabama, 3 May 1943

A 2-inch mortar being fired from a Universal Carrier in Britain, 10 May 1943	American troops at Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, 11 May 1943

Sailors cleaning a 5-inch gun barrel aboard USS Nicholas following action on 13 May 1943.	US Army anti-aircraft gun crew manning their 3-inch M3 AA gun at New Fighter Strip, Dobodura, New Guinea, 17 May 1943

Camouflaged German 2 cm Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun mounted atop a SdKfz. 7 half-track vehicle, immediately prior to Battle of Kursk, summer 1943, photo 1 of 2	Camouflaged German 2 cm Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun mounted atop a SdKfz. 7 half-track vehicle, immediately prior to Battle of Kursk, summer 1943, photo 2 of 2

German soldier of Großdeutschland Division near Achtyrka, Ukraine, Jun 1943; note Kar98k rifle with grenade launcher	Knight's Cross winner Hauptfeldwebel Josef Niemitz posing with his anti-aircraft gun crew in the Soviet Union, Jun-Jul 1943

Troops of the German 'Großdeutschland' Division with MG42 machine gun, Russia, Jun 1943	US Navy PV-1 Ventura aircraft dropping a Mk XIII torpedo over Saratoga Passage, Washington, United States, 4 Jun 1943. Note the torpedo's wooden tail shroud.

37 mm Gun M3 mounted aboard a M6 Gun Motor Carriage, with additional .50 cal machine gun attached, 3 miles west of Watertown, Tennessee, United States, 6 Jun 1943	82nd Airborne load a 75mm howitzer into a CG-4A Troop Glider during training at Oujda, French Morocco, North Africa a month before the Sicily invasion, Jun 11 1943.