Weaponary

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 * __Therese Long__**

A lot of new weapons were turned to, in order to win the war. Poison gas was used as one of the new dangerous weapons. It was used to The soldiers used different types of gases, and it killed and injured thousands of people , but it was limited. For example, a change in the wind could blow the gas back towards the troops who had launched it. German Military Scientists were experimenting with poisonous gas. Although it seemed to be a breakthrough in military technology, actually using this weapon on the battlefield was a risky maneuver. Especially because most soldiers did not know how much gas to use in an attack. The gas was usually a yellow - green cloud of chlorine miles wide.
 * blind people
 * choke people
 * burn victims.

Another weapon that was used was the motorized armored tank. Both tanks and aircraft were used in the war. Tanks, armored vehicles that could cross rough battlefield terrain , were pioneered by the British. The tanks, however , did have limited success. Sometimes they would get stuck in the mud. Sometimes the enemy would destroy your tank with artillery fire. That could be a weapon as well.

Aircraft was always useful. Soon mechanics began to attach machine guns to the airplanes, and pilots began to drop bombs from the air. As the war was going on, new and faster airplanes were built and proved to be very useful in attacking battlefields and cities. The Japanese had the advantage in the number of ships and aircraft carriers that they could bring to Midway. But Americans had an even bigger advantage. They had broken the secret Japanese code to transmit messages, which was very helpful because they then knew the date and the location of the planned Japanese attack.

Machine guns had been deadly during world war one. The same was true in world war two. By the ending of world war one, machine guns had radically changed how the wars were fought. There was two types of machine guns. There were heavy ones, and light ones.

The Churchill was the fourth development in a series of infantry support tanks and despite its bloody start to combat at Dieppe, it proved to have a reliable design. The Atomic Bomb was first used in Warfare at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 and the bomb a key role in the ending of world war two. The atomic bomb, created via the Manhattan Project , was first exploded at the top secret base of Alamorgordo on July 16, 1945. The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was code named 'Little Boy'. The amount of Energy that 'Little Boy' created was equal of a 15 kiloton TNT explosion.

There was also the development of long range fighter planes, which could offer protection to the vulnerable bombers , made it possible to carry out daylight roads , which were more accurate , without heavy losses. Japan was also attacked in strategic ways. Typical armament included Semi - automatic weapons. Those weapons only required that the trigger be pulled repeatedly to shoot.
 * Bombs
 * Heavy Machine Guns
 * Air-to-ground rockets
 * Fighter Bombers
 * Aircraft carriers
 * Ships
 * U-boats
 * Tanks

These weapons were very helpful to the soldiers involved it World War Two. Although some of them had limited success, they helped protect , and they killed / injured the enemy.



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