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The company was a major producer of the .303 Pattern 1914 Enfield rifle for the British Government and the similar .30-06 M1917 Enfield rifle for the United States during World War I. Working at the Winchester plant during the war, Browning developed the final design of the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), of which it produced some 27,000 ...
World War I 1923 Revolution [21] Constitutionalist Revolution [22] Spanish Civil War [23] World War II Indonesian National Revolution East German uprising of 1953 Araguaia Guerrilla War [24] Production history; Designed: 1866: Manufacturer: Winchester Repeating Arms Company: Produced: 1866–present: No. built: c. 720,000: Variants: Full ...
He was the son of Samuel Winchester and Hannah Bates and was born in Boston on November 30, 1810. He married Jane Ellen Hope in Boston on February 20, 1834. Their children were: Ann Rebecca Winchester (1835–1864) who married Charles B. Dye; William Wirt Winchester (1837–1881) who married Sarah Lockwood Pardee
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...
Working for the Enemy: Ford, General Motors, and Forced Labor in Germany During the Second World War. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-013-7. Bitunjac, Martina; Schoeps, Julius H. (June 21, 2021). Complicated Complicity: European Collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-067118-6.
Military production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945.
World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939 [1] [2] with the German invasion of Poland and the United Kingdom and France's declaration of war on Germany two days later on 3 September 1939. Dates for the beginning of the Pacific War include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] or the earlier Japanese ...
Among the 5.3 million Wehrmacht casualties during the Second World War, more than 80 per cent died during the last two years of the war. Approximately three-quarters of these losses occurred on the Eastern front (2.7 million) and during the final stages of the war between January and May 1945 (1.2 million). [108] Jeffrey Herf wrote that: