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53 conflicts · 149 unique items. This is a growing selection, not a complete list of weapons from every war. You can compare items from different conflicts; filtering does not clear your selection.
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1941 – 1945 · 18 catalogue items
A Japanese bolt-action rifle.
🧪 Prototype
Design: Lytle S. Adams; US Army Air Forces and Navy (1942–1944)
A bomb casing holding more than a thousand Mexican free-tailed bats, each carrying a small timed incendiary. Released over Japan, the animals were expected to roost under the eaves of wooden houses. In one test armed bats escaped and part of an airfield in New Mexico burned down. After spending about two million dollars the project was cancelled in 1944.
🧪 Prototype
Design: Bob Semple, Public Works Department (1940–1941)
New Zealand's emergency tank from the days when a Japanese invasion was feared and no real tanks could be had: a Caterpillar crawler tractor with a superstructure of corrugated iron over steel and a row of Bren guns. It was slow and top-heavy and became a target of ridicule. A few were built; none saw action.
A four-engined American bomber with thirteen heavy machine guns, the backbone of the daylight bombing campaign over Germany. Engine power is the total of four 895 kW engines.
A light automatic rifle by John Browning, introduced in France in 1918; the support weapon of the American rifle squad until the Korean War.
An American air-cooled machine-gun family.
A semi-automatic pistol by John Browning in .45 ACP; the standard sidearm of the US Army for more than seventy years.
The most-produced American military aircraft ever (18,482 built). Henry Ford's Willow Run plant built thousands of them; at its peak a bomber rolled off the line roughly every hour. Engine power is the total of four engines.
🔧 Limited production9300 built
Design: Imperial Japanese Army technical research institute (1942–1944)
Paper hydrogen balloons that rode the jet stream across the Pacific in a few days carrying incendiary and high-explosive bombs: the first intercontinental weapon. Japan launched more than nine thousand; a few hundred were found in North America. In May 1945 one killed six people in Oregon, the only deaths from enemy action on the US mainland during the war.
A British bolt-action rifle family; models and dimensions varied.
An American semi-automatic service rifle.
An American medium tank; engines, guns and armour varied considerably by variant.
A Japanese naval fighter; figures vary by A6M variant.
An American fighter whose British Merlin engine and large fuel tanks let it escort bombers deep over Germany; it was also used in the Korean War. Range is with drop tanks.
An American submachine gun with model and magazine variants.
An American aircraft carrier of the Yorktown class.
An American Iowa-class battleship; Japan signed its surrender on deck in 1945. Modernised with cruise missiles, it was deployed in the Gulf War.
A Japanese battleship carrying the largest guns ever mounted on a ship; sunk during Operation Ten-Go.