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During World War II, approximately 350,000 U.S. women served with the armed forces. As many as 543 died in war-related incidents, including 16 nurses who were killed from enemy fire - even though U.S. political and military leaders had decided not to use women in combat because they feared public opinion. [ 2 ]
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Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname, The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Filling weight. 18,739 lb (8,500 kg) Blast yield. 11 tons TNT (46 GJ) The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB, / ˈmoʊæb /, colloquially explained as " mother of all bombs ") is a large-yield bomb, developed for the United States military by Albert L. Weimorts, Jr. of the Air Force Research Laboratory. [1][2] It was first tested in 2003.
Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. “More than six million women took wartime jobs in factories, three million volunteered with the Red Cross, and over 200,000 served in the military.”. [ 1 ] The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute ...
Coordinates: 48°47′05.4″N29°47′14.5″E48.784833°N 29.787361°E. Germany's Einsatzgruppen murdering Jewish civilians in Ivanhorod, Ukraine (1942) The Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph is a prominent depiction of the Holocaust in Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War II. Dated to 1942, it shows a soldier aiming his rifle at a ...
MG 42(Used by Italian Social Republic) Medium machine guns. [edit] Breda Mod. 5G. Breda M1938(Tank machine gun adapted for infantry use)[385] Fiat–Revelli M1914(Used by colonial troops in Italian East Africa)[386] Fiat–Revelli M1935(Fully replaced Fiat–Revelli M1914 in 1940)[386] Heavy machine guns.
Various firearms used by the United States military during World War II, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax County, Virginia. The following is a list of World War II weapons of the United States, which includes firearm, artillery, vehicles, vessels, and other support equipment known to have been used by the United States Armed Forces—namely the United States Army, United ...