List of secondary and special-issue World War II infantry weapons

This is a list of World War II infantry weapons.

Kingdom of Albania

In 1939 Albanian Kingdom got invaded by Italy and became Italian protectorate of Albania that participated in Greco-Italian War in 1940 under Italian command. After Italian armistice in 1943 German military forces entered Albania and it came under German occupation. Albanian troops were mostly equipped by Italians, Albanian partisans used weapons from various sources.

Sidearms

Rifles

Machine guns

Australia

The Second Australian Imperial Force that served in Mediterranean and Middle East and Pacific theatre

Two Australian soldiers equipped with Owen submachine guns

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Belgium

Before being conquered by Germany The Belgian Army used their own equipment up to 1940. Free Belgian forces were equipped by UK, however colonial troops of Force Publique in East Africa had to use outdated weaponry.

Edged weapons

  • M1924 bayonet

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Grenades

  • O.F. grenade
  • Mills bomb (used by Free Belgian forces)

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Brazil

The Brazilian Expeditionary Force, under US command, served in Italy from 1944.

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Shotguns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Grenades

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

Kingdom of Bulgaria

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

State of Burma

The State of Burma was a puppet government set up by Japanese after they occupied Burma in 1942. It lasted from 1943 to March 1945 when the Burma National Army revolted and joined the allies.

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Canada

Weaponry used by Canadian Army that fought on the side of the Allies

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

During the Second World War Canada produced grenades types with Numbers 36 and from 67 to 89.[37]

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons and explosives

Republic of China

A Chinese Nationalist Army soldier equipped with a ZB vz. 26 and a German M1935 helmet. Before the war broke out, China sought support from, and often traded with Germany and relied on both military and economical support.

Weapons used by the National Revolutionary Army, as well as Communist forces and Chinese warlords

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

  • M3 submachine gun (Lend-Leased to the National Revolutionary Army, along with the Thompson, to replace the outdated Chinese copies of the MP 18 and MP 28 submachine guns used during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the early years of the Chinese Civil War)
  • Thompson submachine gun (American Lend-Lease and local production)
  • United Defense M42 (American Lend-Lease and local production)
  • Sten submachine gun
  • Erma EMP-35 (Limited)
  • SIG M1920 (Locally produced copy with a downward facing magazine known as the Tsing Dao Submachine Gun)
  • MP 34
  • PPD-40

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Grenades

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

Independent State of Croatia

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Automatic rifles

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakian soldiers with a ZB vz. 26 and a ZB vz. 24

Weaponry used by Czechoslovak armies in exile that served under British and Soviet commands. For weapons used and produced in interwar period by First and Second Czechoslovak Republic see list below.

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Anti-tank weapons

Mortars

Denmark

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Shotguns

Rifles

Machine guns

Anti-tank weapons

Kingdom of Egypt

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Ethiopian Empire

Ethiopian Empire was defeated by Italy in Second Italo-Ethiopian War and became Italian Ethiopia from 1937. Ethiopians continued a guerrilla war as the Arbegnoch until British forces took Italian Ethiopia in 1941 as part of the East African campaign

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Republic of Finland

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Automatic and battle rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Mines

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

Anti-aircraft weapons

French 3rd Republic

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Shotguns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Mines

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Guided explosive weapons

German Reich

German paratrooper carrying a MG 42

In addition to the weapons listed here, German armed forces also used a wide variety of weapons captured from defeated enemies.

Edged weapons

Sidearms

  • Walther P38 (Replacement for Luger P-08, completely overtook Luger production by 1942.)
  • Luger P-08 (Original standard issue military pistol, was intended to be replaced by the Walther P-38 as it was cheaper to produce, the P08 however was still produced until 1942 because of production movement to different factories.)
  • Mauser C96 (Rarer than the Luger P-08.)
    • M712 Schnellfeuer (fully automatic variant, issued to the Waffen-SS with a wooden stock-holster)
  • Mauser HSC
  • Reichsrevolver
  • Sauer 38H
  • Walther PP and PPK (German police standard-issued sidearms)

Foreign weapons produced under occupation

Submachine guns

  • MP 38/MP 40 (Standard-issued SMG of the German army)
  • MP 18/MP 28
  • Erma EMP-35
  • MP35
  • MP41 - Combination of an MP-28 stock and the rest of an MP-40
  • MP 3008 (also known as Volks-MP.3008, Gerät Neumünster) and Gerät Potsdam - copies of the Sten, used by the Volkssturm
  • Suomi KP/-31 - Finnish produced weapon bought from Finland, some captured from other countries.
  • MP-41(r), - (Soviet PPSh-41 rebarreled for 9x19mm Parabellum)
  • MP717(r) - (Soviet PPSh-41 with Soviet ammuntion/Grass Is Greener Syndrome.)

Foreign weapons produced under occupation

Automatic rifles

  • StG 44 assault rifle[78]
  • FG 42 automatic rifle, issued to Fallschirmjäger units in small numbers and a very, very, VERY, few amount given to SS troops because of supply issues and miscommunication.

Rifles

Foreign weapons produced under occupation

  • Gewehr 24(t) (vz. 24)
  • Gewehr 29/40(ö) (modified version of Karabinek wz. 1929, produced in Poland under Austrian management)
  • Gewehr 33/40(t) (modified version of vz. 33)
  • Gewehr 211(n) (Krag-Jørgensen)
  • Gewehr 311(d) Danish version of the Krag-Jørgensen

Sniper rifles

Machine guns

  • MG 13 Light machine gun (Fairly limited usage by early war second-line troops and by the Volkssturm, replaced by the MG-34)
  • MG 34 General-purpose machine gun (German army main fire support weapon until superseded by the MG 42 because of ease of manufacture and high fire rate, still used after.)
  • MG 42 General-purpose machine gun (Main fire support weapon of the German army after 1942-1943 after replacing MG-34.)
  • Bergmann MG 15nA machine gun used by volkssturm
  • MG 08 (Limited)
  • MG 15
  • MG 35-36A "Knorr-Bremse" (Limited usage)[83][84]

Foreign weapons produced under occupation

Grenades and grenade launchers

Mines

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Anti-aircraft rocket launcher

Guided explosive weapons

Kingdom of Greece

Weaponry used by Hellenic Army during World War II. After World War I Greece received a large quantities of French weaponry. After fall of Greece elements of the Greek Armed Forces that managed to escape to the British-controlled Middle East formed Greek Armed Forces in the Middle East, these forces were reequipped by UK. Partisans and resistance movement used weapons from various sources but mainly used captured Italian and German weapons from Greco-Italian War and German invasion of Greece, they were also supplied by UK and OSS.

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Grenades

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

  • PIAT (Used by Greek Armed Forces in the Middle East)

Kingdom of Hungary

Weaponry used by Royal Hungarian Army that fought on the side of the Axis powers

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Mines

Mortars

  • 5 cm Granatwerfer 36 (Supplied by Germany)
  • 39 M. 5 cm gránátvető (5 cm 39.M grenade launcher)[117]
  • 36 M. és 36/39 M. 8 cm aknavető (Hungarian 81 mm 36.M & 36/39M medium mortars)[117]
  • 43 M. 12cm aknavető (Hungarian 120 mm 43.M mortar based on captured Soviet M1943 Mortar)[117]

Anti-tank weapons

British Raj

The British Indian Army under UK command.

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Imperial State of Iran

Weapons used by Imperial State of Iran during Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Kingdom of Iraq

Weapons used by Kingdom of Iraq during Anglo-Iraqi War in 1941

Sidearms

Rifles

Machine guns

Kingdom of Italy

Weaponry of Royal Italian Army up to 1943 and National Republican Army from 1943.

Edged weapons

  • M1891 sciabola baionetta (Sword bayonet)
  • M1891/38 pugnale baionetta (Dagger bayonet)
  • M1939 pugnale (Dagger)

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Grenades

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Japanese Empire

Japanese soldiers with a Type 92 machine gun during the 1941 Battle of Changsha

See also: List of Japanese military equipment of World War II

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Semi-automatic rifles

  • Pedersen rifle (Used in the Battle of Okinawa. Purchased during the 30s)
  • Type Kō rifle
  • Arisaka Type 5 rifle (Also known as the Type 4 Rifle)
  • Type Hei Rifle (During World War II, the small numbers of Type Hei rifles that were available were pressed into service and some were captured by US troops in the Pacific Theater)
  • Type Otsu

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Grenade dischargers

Mines

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Guided explosive weapons

  • I-Go (Remote-controlled explosive machine)

Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Anti-tank weapons

Manchukuo

The Manchukuo Imperial Army served under Japanese Command in Second Sino-Japanese War and during Invasion of Manchuria in 1945.

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenade dischargers

Mengjiang

The Inner Mongolian Army served under Japanese Command in Second Sino-Japanese War and during Invasion of Manchuria in 1945.

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Mongolian People's Republic

The Mongolian People's Army, under Soviet Command, served in Manchuria in 1945 and in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in 1939

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Netherlands

The weaponry of Royal Netherlands Army, Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) and Free Dutch Forces

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Anti-tank weapons

New Zealand

The 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force that served in Africa, Mediterranean and Pacific theatre

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Norway

Weapons used by Norwegian Army during the Norwegian campaign in 1940. Norwegian resistance movement used weapons from various sources, Commandos primarily used British equipment. Norwegian police troops in Sweden were recruited from refugees and trained in secret camps by Swedish military and used Swedish equipment, they originally intended to help maintain order in a post-war Norway however they partially participated in Liberation of Finnmark

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Commonwealth of the Philippines

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Shotguns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Grenade launchers

Flamethrowers

Mortars

2nd Polish Republic

Polish infantry marching with their rifles

Before Germany conquered Poland the Polish army was chiefly equipped with weapons of its own making. After the German and Soviet occupation, the Polish government continued in exile. Polish armed forces in the West were equipped by the Western Allies, principally the UK and those formed in the East under the USSR were equipped with Soviet equipment. Within occupied Poland the Polish resistance forces were equipped with weapons from many sources.

Sidearms

Submachine gun

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Grenade launchers

Mines

Flamethrowers

  • Sender flamethrower
  • WS-1 flamethrower
  • WS-2 flamethrower
  • Zieliński flamethrower

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Kingdom of Romania

Romania joined the Axis Powers in 1940 and the Romanian Royal Army fought on that side until August 1944. After a coup d'etat in August 1944 Romania fought alongside the USSR against Germany and Hungary.

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

  • MAN 1939 (Polish wz.33 offensive and defensive grenades produced under a license)[202]

Mines

  • MAN model 1939 AT (Anti-tank mine)[203]

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

First Slovak Republic

Weaponry of First Slovak Republic participating in the conflict from 1939 to 1944.

Sidearms

Rifles

Submachine guns

Light machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Grenades

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Union of South Africa

The Union of South Africa serving under UK command. Served in Africa and Italy.

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Soviet Union

Edged weapons

Handguns

Submachine guns

Automatic rifles

Rifles

Machine guns

  • DP-27 (Erroneously called DP-28 in the west, standard issued LMG of the Red Army)
  • Maxim M1910 (Main fire support weapon of the Red Army)
  • Goryunov SG-43
  • DShK machine gun (Main heavy machine gun of the Red Army, Mounted as a top-mounted machine gun for the IS-2)
  • DTM-4
  • DS-39 (Production discontinued after the German invasion)
  • RPD (Limited use in 1945)
  • Lewis Mk I (Lend-Lease)
  • MG-34 (Captured from the Germans)

Grenades

Grenade launchers

  • Dyakonoff grenade launcher [ru] (Attachment on the M91/30 rifle only)
  • VPGS-41 Rifle Grenade (Rifle Grenade mounted on Mosin Nagant Model 1891/30)

Mines

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Thailand

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Grenade dischargers

Anti-tank weapons

United Kingdom (including colonies)

British soldiers at Tobruk, equipped with Thompson submachine guns and Lee-Enfield rifles

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Sniper rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Obstacle clearing explosive charges

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Remote controlled demolition devices

United States of America

A U.S. Marine armed with a M1 carbine
Two U.S. soldiers with M1 Garand rifles

Blade weapons

Sidearms

Shotguns

Commonly used by the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific theater, limited use in Europe.

Submachine guns

  • Thompson submachine gun (Standard-issued SMG of the US army, various variants used by Army and Marine Corps)
  • M3 'Grease Gun' (M3 variant was the main variant used during the war. Introduced as low cost replacement for Thompson, but never completely replaced it.)
  • M50/M55 Reising (Used used by USMC 1941-1943 in the Pacific, and supplied as Lend-Lease to USSR and other countries)
  • United Defense M42 (supplied to resistance and partisan groups, also issued to some OSS members, but not in great quantities.)

Automatic Rifles

  • M2 Carbine (Only used in the final battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the pacific)

Rifles

Sniper rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Grenade launchers

Mines

Obstacle clearing explosive charges

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Automatic rifles

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

See also

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