World War Two Naval Warfare. National Museum of Military History

 

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Japanese Artillery. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

Labels: 1900s, 1930s, 1940s, Artillery, Imperial Japanese Army, National Museum of Military Vehicles, World War Two, Wyoming (Dubois)

Japanese Artillery. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

Japanese weapons receive much less attention that those of other armies, in part because their ground weapons tended to be obsolescent or odd.  Artillery is no exception.

A lot of Japanese weapons tended to reflect an earlier era, sometimes only slightly so, and sometimes greatly, than that of the 1940s.  Japan tended to adopt a weapon, of a copy of a good Western design, and stick with it for a long time, savor for naval and air weapons, where they were advancing all the time.  In terms of artillery, much of it was light and antiquated.

It's notable here that of the Japanese guns depicted, most still retain wagon wheel type wheels.

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British 25 Pdr. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

Labels: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Artillery, British Army, National Museum of Military Vehicles, World War Two, Wyoming (Dubois)

British 25 Pdr. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

Arguably the United States had the best artillery of the Second World War, but the British and the Germans had very good artillery.  This depicts a British 25 pdr with its artillery tractor.

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German Artillery. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

Labels: 1910s, 1920s, 1926, 1930s, 1933, 1935, Artillery, German Wehrmacht, Weapons, World War One, World War Two, Wyoming (Dubois)

German Light Transportation. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

 

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Two wheeled transportation. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

Labels: 1930s, 1939, 1940s, German Wehrmacht, Motorcycles, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Red Army, World War Two, Wyoming (Dubois)

Two wheeled transportation. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

Russian motorcycle with sidecar.

German motorcycles with sidecars and MG42s

Bad photo of another German motorcycle.

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British and Commonwealth WWII Vehicles, National Museum of Military Vehicles.

British and Commonwealth WWII Vehicles, National Museum of Military Vehicles.

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U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima. National Museum of Military History.

Labels: 1940s, Armor, Iwo Jima, National Museum of Military Vehicles, United States Marine Corps, Weapons, World War Two, Wyoming (Dubois)