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The Ross rifle is a straight-pull bolt action rifle chambered in .303 British that was produced in Canada from 1903 until 1918. [1]The Ross Mk.II (or "model 1905") rifle was highly successful in target shooting before World War I, but the close chamber tolerances, lack of primary extraction and length made the Mk.III (or "1910") Ross rifle unsuitable for the conditions of trench warfare ...
Lee–Enfield No.3 and No.4 Mk I (Locally produced, Standard issue rifle) [47] Pattern 1914 Enfield (Used for training and by secondary troops. Used by the snipers) [47] [48] M1 carbine (Received 230 carbines from Lend-Lease. Limited use) [49] M1 Garand (Garands were issued to certain Canadian Army units near the end of World War II)
No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron was created On 1 July 1940 [2] as the first such Polish unit at RAF Bramcote, as a part of the Polish Air Forces in Great Britain. As there was a large number of Polish airmen, often with experience in combat against German forces in Poland and France, further bomber squadrons were created by 24 July.
Tank, Cruiser, Mk.V, Covenanter (A13 Mk.III) – training use only; Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VI, Crusader (A15) – Entered service in 1941, replacing earlier models in combat formations; Tank, Cruiser, Mk.VII, Cavalier (A24) – Not used as a gun tank in war. Used for training and as an observation post for artillery officers, and as an armoured ...
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 ...
Mk I Armadillos on the Wolverton production line The RAF started looking for a suitable vehicle at the end of May 1940 and by 4 June they settled on the design destined to be known as the Armadillo. This vehicle was a flat-bed truck, on the back of which was mounted a box-like fighting compartment in which soldiers could stand and fire small ...
Jagdgeschwader 300 (JG 300) was a Luftwaffe fighter-wing of World War II. JG 300 was formed on 26 June 1943 in Deelen as Stab/ Versuchskommando Herrmann , from July 18, 1943 as Stab/ JG Herrmann and finally renamed on August 20, 1943 to Stab/JG 300.
During World War II, Italy regularly mounted cannons on portee trucks. Also, permanent installation of guns on trucks and armored cars were done on ad-hoc basis, therefore many self-propelled guns had no official name besides descriptive type of truck plus type of cannon. Below is the grossly incomplete list of these self-propelled weapons.