Photos of World War II Weapons | World War II Database

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US Army M24 Chaffee light tank fighting in Salzburg, Austria, early May 1945	Twelve of the top snipers from the Soviet Third Army, 1st Belarussian Front, May 1945. Note the modified Mosin-Nagant rifles and PU 3.5x series fixed power scopes.

Private D. E. Hailey and T. M. Conway of the Australian 2/23 Infantry Battalion in their Bren gun pit on the forward slope of B Company position, Tarakan, Borneo, May 1945	German soldiers surrendering their rifles, near Landeck, Austria, 6 May 1945

Soviet troops escorting German officers to surrender negotiations, Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), 6 May 1945	General Thomas Blamey and Brigadier David Whitehead inspecting a captured Japanese Type 96 25mm anti-aircraft gun, Essex Ridge, Tarakan Island, Borneo, 8 May 1945

Red Army soldiers celebrating the victory in Berlin, Germany, May 1945	US Marine Private First Class Paul E. Ison running through Japanese fire at 'Death Valley', Okinawa, Japan, 10 May 1945

F6F Hellcats of the United States Navy Fighting Squadron VF-12 flying from USS Randolph firing HVAR air-to-surface rockets at targets in western Kyushu, Japan, May 1945.	Essex underway at sea during the Okinawa Campaign, 20 May 1945; note the F4U and F6F aircraft on the flight deck

Men of US 6th Marine Division resting in Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 29 May 1945	William Joyce in an ambulance under armed guard with a thigh gunshot wound, Flensburg, Germany, 29 May 1945, photo 1 of 3

William Joyce in an ambulance under armed guard with a thigh gunshot wound, Flensburg, Germany, 29 May 1945, photo 3 of 3	A US command post on Okinawa, Japan in ruins of a tomb, 1945

Female Japanese civilians training with a Type 11 machine gun, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Jun 1945	German child playing with abandoned weapons, Berlin, Germany, 1945

German child playing with abandoned weapons, Berlin, Germany, 1945	Hungarian prisoners of war being guarded by a US soldier, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, circa May-Jun 1945

LVT Buffalos on a beach during a training exercise, Jun 1945. Note Browning M2 and M1919 machine guns.	Phosphorous grenade exploding on a Japanese position, Okinawa, Japan, 1945