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This is a list of World War II infantry weapons.

Albania[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Australia[]

Owen Gun (AWM 018320)

Two Australian soldiers equipped with Owen submachine guns

Sidearms[]

  • Browning Hi-Power
  • Enfield No.2
  • Smith & Wesson Victory
  • Webley Mk.VI (.455 Caliber)

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Flamethrowers[]

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Austria[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Belgium[]

Edged weapons[]

  • M1924 bayonet

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Light machine guns[]

Medium machine guns[]

Heavy machine guns[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Brazil[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Shotguns[]

Rifles[]

Light machine guns[]

Medium machine guns[]

Heavy machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Flamethrowers[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Bulgaria[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

State of Burma[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Canada[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Flamethrowers[]

Anti-tank weapons and explosives[]

China[]

KMTcadet

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  • M3 submachine gun (Lend-Leased to the National Revolutionary Army, along with the Thompson, to replace the outdated Chinese copies of the MP 18 and MP 28 submachine guns used during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the early years of the Chinese Civil War)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[]

  • M1A1 flamethrower

Anti-tank weapons[]

Independent State of Croatia[]

Edged weapons[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Automatic rifles[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Czechoslovakia[]

CSR soldiers ZB vz 26

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

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Denmark[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Shotguns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

  • Browning M1919
  • M29 medium machine gun (Heavy barrel version of the standard M24)
  • Madsen machine gun

Anti-tank weapons[]

Egypt[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Estonia[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Ethiopia[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

FN M1930 D

Finland[]

Edged weapons[]

  • Puukko knife

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

  • Finnish Mosin–Nagant M28-30

(Also known as the Pystykorva)

Automatic and battle rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Mines[]

Flamethrowers[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Anti-aircraft weapons[]

France[]

Edged weapons[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

  • Thompson M1928 (American aid)
  • Sten submachine gun (British aid)
  • MAS-38
  • Erma EMP-35
  • MP 18
  • MP 40 (French resistance)

Shotguns[]

  • Winchester M1897
  • Winchester M1912

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Guided explosive weapons[]

Nazi Germany[]

Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-559-1076-29, Russland, Fallschirmjäger mit MG und Munitionsgurt

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 (standard-issued pistol of the German army)
  • Luger P-08 (Successfully replaced by Walther P38, never as common as the P38 and was desired by American and other western allied troops, which caused many Lugers to be used in traps.)
  • 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[]

  • MP40 (Standard-issued SMG of the German army)
  • MP18 & MP28
  • Erma EMP-35
  • MP35
  • MP38
  • MP41
  • MP3008 (Gerät Neumünster) & Gerät Potsdam - copy of Sten, used by the Volkssturm as a last ditch weapon
  • Suomi KP/-31
  • MP-41(r), R standing for Russisch, German word for Russian (Copy of the PPSh-41, utilized 32 round magazines of 9x19mm ammunition) unconverted copies were designated MP717(r)

Foreign weapons produced under occupation[]

Automatic rifles[]

  • StG44 assault rifle
  • FG42 battle rifle - paratrooper rifle made in a small quantity and only issued to fallshirmjäger divisions

Rifles[]

Foreign weapons produced under occupation[]

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"

Foreign weapons produced under occupation[]

Combination guns[]

Grenades & Grenade launchers[]

Mine[]

Flamethrowers[]

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Anti-aircraft rocket launcher[]

Guided explosive weapons[]

Greece[]

Edged weapons[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

  • M3 submachine gun (Used by exiled Greek forces)
  • Thompson M1928 and M1A1 (Used by exiled Greek forces)
  • Sten submachine gun (Used by exiled Greek forces)
  • Beretta M1938 (Captured from the Italians)
  • MP 34 (Captured from the Germans and used by gendarmerie and police forces)
  • MP 40 (Captured from the Germans)
  • Makrykano M1943 (Used by exiled Greek forces)

Rifles[]

Light machine guns[]

Medium machine guns[]

Heavy machine guns[]

Grenades[]

  • churnat

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Hungary[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Mines[]

  • 36M mine
  • 43M mine

Anti-tank weapons[]

India[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Shotguns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Iran[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Iraq[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Italy[]

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[]

Japan[]

WW2 Japanese INfatry Weapons Poster Chart Newsmap Vol 3 No 34 1944-12-11 US Government National Archives NARA Unrestricted Public domain 26-nm-3-34 002
Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun2

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[]

  • Type 93 and Type 100

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Guided explosive weapons[]

  • I-Go (Remote-controlled explosive machine)

Latvia[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Lithuania[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Luxembourg[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Manchukuo[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenade dischargers[]

Mengjiang[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Mexico[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Mongolia[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Montenegro[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Nepal[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Netherlands[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

New Zealand[]

Armored vehicle[]

  • Bob semple tank
  • Schofield tank

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Norway[]

Sidearms[]

  • Colt Kongsberg M1914 (Licensed copy of the Colt M1911, standard issue for the Norwegian Army until 1940)
  • Webley revolver (Used by the Norwegian Resistance)
  • Nagant M1893 (Earlier service revolver that preceded the Colt Kongsberg M1914 in service and was still in use by 1940)

Submachine guns[]

  • M3 submachine gun (Used by the Norwegian Resistance)
  • Sten submachine gun (Used by the Norwegian Resistance)

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Philippines[]

Edged weapons[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Shotguns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Grenade launchers[]

Flamethrowers[]

Mortars[]

Poland[]

Polish infantry marching -2 1939

Polish infantry marching with their rifles

Sidearms[]

Submachine gun[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Grenade launchers[]

Flamethrowers[]

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

Mortars[]

  • wz.18 mortar
  • wz.18/31 mortar
  • wz.28 mortar
  • wz.31 mortar
  • wz.32 heavy mortar
  • wz.40 mortar

Anti-tank weapons[]

Romania[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Slovak Republic[]

Sidearms[]

Rifles[]

  • ZB vz. 24 (Standard issue rifle)
  • Mauser Karabiner 98k

Submachine guns[]

Light machine guns[]

Heavy machine guns[]

Mortars[]

  • 80 mm vz. 36 medium mortar

South Africa[]

Sidearms[]

  • Webley revolver

Submachine guns[]

  • Thompson M1928
  • Sten submachine gun

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Soviet Union[]

Edged weapons[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Automatic rifles[]

Rifles & anti-tank 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)

Grenades[]

Grenade launchers[]

  • Dyakonoff grenade launcher (Attachment on the M91/30 rifle only)

Mines[]

Flamethrowers[]

  • ROKS-2
  • ROKS-3

Anti-tank weapons[]

Thailand[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Grenade dischargers[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

United Kingdom (including colonies)[]

9 Div Tobruk(AWM 020779)

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

Edged weapons[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Shotguns[]

Rifles[]

Sniper rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Obstacle clearing explosive charges[]

Flamethrowers[]

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Guided explosive weapons[]

United States[]

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A U.S. Marine armed with a M1 carbine

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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[]

  • M1A1 Thompson (Standard-issued SMG of the US army)
  • M3 Grease Gun (M3 variant was the main variant used during the war, the M3A1 was used in Korea and later conflicts )
  • Thompson M1928 (Used by Army and Marines early in the war)
  • Thompson M1928A1 (Used by Army and Marines early in the war)
  • Reising M50
  • Reising M55 (Paratrooper stock variant of M50 Reising)
  • United Defense M42 (Used by OSS agents primarily, none issued to the major branches)

Automatic Rifles[]

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

Rifles[]

  • M1 Garand (Standard issue rifle)
  • Springfield M1903A1 (Original model manufactured by Springfield)
  • M1 Carbine
  • M1A1 Carbine (Paratrooper version of the M1 Carbine with folding stock)
  • Remington M1903A3 (Remington manufactured Springfield M1903 rifle used by Marines early in the pacific, phased out by M1 Carbine and M1 Garand)
  • Enfield M1917
  • Johnson M1941 rifle

Sniper rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Grenade launchers[]

Obstacle clearing explosive charges[]

Flamethrowers[]

Mortars[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

Yugoslavia[]

Sidearms[]

Submachine guns[]

Automatic rifles[]

Rifles[]

Machine guns[]

Grenades[]

Flamethrowers[]

Anti-tank weapons[]

World War II weapons list shown by categories[]

See also[]

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