Transcript Group 8 - WWII Projects

Multiple
Weapons
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and Jacob
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We are very helpful and just ask us any
questions if you have any. This is our
museum that we made. We made it about
weapons because we were really interested,
and wanted to know about the different
weapons. Also people that used it.
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Big Weapons
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Tank (Panzerkampfwagen IV)
This particular tank was often referred to
as the Panzer IV. It was a medium tank
Nazi Germany developed during the late
1930s. The Panzer IV was widely used
throughout the war. The Panzer IV tank
was initially designed to be an infantrysupport tank. Eventually the Panzer IV
assumed the role of the Panzer III and
began engaging in battle. The Panzer IV
was the most widely produced German
tank during WWII.
http://armedforcesmuseum.com/topten-tanks-of-wwii/
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P51 Mustang
This plane was designed, built
and flown in just a few months
time and is often regarded as
the design which helped the
Allies to win the war. They
were using this plain to help the
bombers on long range aerial
missions but could also
outperform German planes in
the skies as well as conduct
ground attacks with bombs and
machine guns.
http://worldwar2.org.uk/ww2-planes
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Submarines
Submarines were widely used by both
sides as the ultimate weapon of naval
blockade, sinking large numbers of
both merchant ships and warships,
resulting in either paralyzing the
enemy's military industry and war
effort by causing severe shortages of
war materials and products and
preventing maritime troop transfers.
This also forceed the enemy to
dedicate enormous resources to anti
submarine warfare in order to prevent
that from happening, resources which
could otherwise be used in the
enemy's main war effort.
http://www.2worldwar2.com/submarines.htm
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Blimps
At the outbreak of World War II, the Navy
had 10 blimps in service; that number
expanded to 167 by the end of the war.
The only U.S. blimp lost was the K-74,
which, on July 18, 1943, spotted a German
U-boat. The blimp opened fire on the
submarine and damaged it. The
submarine fired back and sent the blimp
into the sea, but the crew was rescued.
The only German blimp involved in the war
was a passenger craft, Graf Zeppelin,
which was used for electronic surveillance
just before the outbreak of the war.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/navy-opens-ablimp-base-in-new-jersey
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Bazooka
The bazooka weapon was one of the first antitank weapons based on the heat shell to enter
service, used by the United States Armed
Forces in World War II. It was nicknamed a
"bazooka" from a vague resemblance to the
musical instrument. It was highly effective, so
much so that the Germans copied it outright to
produce their own version known as the
Panzerschreck. The US Army had developed a
shaped-charge hand grenade for anti-tank use
that was effective at defeating up to 100mm of
armor. However it remained very difficult to
use, requiring it to be placed directly on the
tank, and for this reason it was largely ignored.
http://www.world-war-2.info/weapons/wp_11.php
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Armored Car BA-10
The BA-10 armoured car was built on a military
version the of the GAZ-AAA six-wheeled
commercial truck chassis (the GAZ truck being a
Russian copy of a Ford design) that had been
suitably modified and reinforced to cope with the
extra weight dictated by the armoured car layout.
The use of a front-engined chassis of this kind
placed the driver behind the engine, with a codriver's machine-gun position beside him. Power
was provided by an 85 bhp GAZ-M1 4-cylinder
water-cooled petrol engine that gave a maximum
speed of 57 km/h and a range of 320 km. This
proved well-suited to the terrain and distances of
the USSR.
http://ww2db.com/vehicle_spec.php?q=A1
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M2-Mortar
The M2 attempted to bridge the gap
between the 81 mm mortar and the hand
grenade. Normally employed by the
weapons platoon of a U.S. infantry
company, the M2 is of the usual mortar
pattern of the day. The firing pin was fixed
in the base cap of the tube, and the bomb
was fired automatically when it dropped
down the barrel. Though classed as a light
mortar, the M2 had considerable range
compared to the 50 mm and 60 mm
mortars of most other nations, and its
fixed-firing pin design allowed a high rate
of fire by trained crews.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_mortar
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Colt M1911
The M1911 is a .45" caliber, single
action, semi-automatic handgun,
originally designed by John
Browning, which was the standardissue handgun in the combat arm of
the United States Armed Forces
from 1911 to 1985
http://www.world-war2.info/weapons/wp_7.php
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Walther P38
The Walther P38 (also known as a
Pistole 38) is a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol that was
developed by Walther arms as the
service pistol of the Wehrmacht
shortly before World War II. It was
intended to replace the costly
Luger P08, the production of which
was scheduled to end in 1942. The
first designs submitted to the Heer
(German Army) featured a locked
breech and a hidden hammer, but
the Heer requested that it be
redesigned with an external
hammer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_P38
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Machine Gun (VMG 1927)
The VMG 1927 is a light machine gun
designed by Heinrich Vollmer. Light machine
gun so it would be easier to carry around than
a heavy machine gun. It consisted of only 78
parts while the standard MG of those days, the
MG 08/15 consisted of 383 parts. It operated
on the principle of short recoil with a rotary
locking mechanism for the bolt, carried by
helical grooves. It was fed from a small drum
magazine underneath the receiver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMG_1927
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Model 24 Stielhandgranate (Grenade)
The stick grenade was introduced in 1915 and
the design developed throughout World War I.
A friction igniter was used; this method was
uncommon in other countries, but widely used
for German grenades. Section of the
Stielhandgranate Model 24. A pull cord ran
down the hollow handle from the detonator
within the explosive head, terminating in a
porcelain ball held in place by a detachable
base closing cap. To use the grenade, the base
cap was unscrewed, permitting the ball and
cord to fall out. Pulling the cord dragged a
roughened steel rod through the igniter causing
it to flare up and start the five-second fuse
burning. This allowed the grenade to be hung
from fences to prevent them from being
climbed; any disturbance to the dangling
grenade would cause it to fall and ignite the
fuse.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
commons/4/40/M24_1.JPG
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The V-1 Flying Bomb
The V-1 flying bomb German: Vergeltungswaffe 1,
also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or
doodlebug, and in Germany as Kirschkern
(cherrystone) or was an early pulsejet-powered
predecessor of the cruise missile. The V-1 was
developed at Peenemünde Army Research Center by
the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World
War. During initial development it was known by the
codename "Cherry Stone". The first of the so-called
Vergeltungswaffen series designed for terror bombing
of London, the V-1 was fired from launch facilities
along the French coasts. The first V-1 was launched
at London on 13 June 1944, one week after the
successful Allied landing in Europe. At its peak, more
than one hundred V-1s a day were fired at south-east
England, 9,521 in total, decreasing in number as sites
were overrun until October 1944, when the last V-1
site in range of Britain was overrun by Allied forces.
After this, the V-1s were directed at the port of
Antwerp and other targets in Belgium, with 2,448 V1s being launched. The attacks stopped when the
last launch site was overrun on 29 March 1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb
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James Doolittle
He had a interest in aviation, a newly
developed technology at the time, drove him to
receive flight training and became a
commissioned officer (lieutenant) at the
conclusion of that training on 11 Mar 1918. He
served as a Air Corps instructor during WW1
and earned fame as an aviator while studying
at MIT during the inter-war years. Between the
great wars, he had also worked in the civilian
aeronautical science field and piloted
experimental aircrafts with pioneering
instruments. During the inter-war years he
contributed greatly to the development of
instrument-assisted flying; he was the first pilot
to operate an aircraft based solely on
instrument readings without utilizing human
sight.
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?pe
rson_id=I56
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Mark Clark
In WW2, Clark was the Deputy
Commander for Operation Torch, which
was the Allied invasion of North Africa.
Over the night of 21-22 Oct 1942, he
covertly landed at Cherchell, Algeria to
meet with Vichy French commander
Charles Mast to secure cooperation. In
1943, he was promoted to the rank of
lieutenant general. In Sep 1943, he led
the US 5th Army during the Salerno
landings in Italy. In Dec 1944, he was
assigned overall command of the 15th
Army Group, or in other words giving him
operational control of the entire Allied
operations in the Italian campaign. He
became Commander of Allied Forces in
Italy before the end of the war.
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=A326
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Franklin Roosevelt
After a brief career in corporate law, Roosevelt
became a New York State Senator in 1910; he had
aimed to join the lower house, the New York State
Assembly, but was placed on the ticket to the State
Senate by favorable luck. In 1919, he was appointed
the Assistant Secretary of the US Navy by President
Woodrow Wilson, where he was credited with the
founding of the Naval Reserve. As Smith vacated his
governorship, Smith saw Roosevelt as the ideal
candidate to succeed him. Roosevelt initially turned
down the notion, citing his commitment to his
poliomyelitis foundation, but ultimately he accepted
the nomination and won the election by a narrow
margin. As the governor of New York, he
implemented progressive policies that would provide
hints for his future tenure as the president of the
country, which came in 1932; he took office in Mar
1933.
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php
?person_id=N885
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Henry Heimlich
Henry Judah Heimlich was born to
Philip Heimlich and Mary Heimlich
(née Epstein) in Wilmington,
Delaware, United States in 1920. He
graduated from New Rochelle High
School in New Rochelle, New York,
United States in 1937, and then from
Cornell University in Ithaca, New
York in 1941. In 1943, he received his
medical doctorate degree from Weill
Cornell Medical College in New York,
New York.
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php
?person_id=N885
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Anti-Air Craft Guns
As the war proceeded, both the Allies
and Axis armies were constantly
innovating. We noted above that the
heavy Browning Automatic (BAR),
primarily aimed at land based targets,
was effective against low flying
planes. The German 88 mm was also
primarily an anti-tank weapon, but
excellent performing as an anti-aircraft
gun. Nevertheless, all the combatants
utilized heavier weapons as well with
a greater ceiling range.
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Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves
as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a
full-length flight deck and facilities for
carrying, arming, deploying, and
recovering aircraft. Typically, it is the
capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval
force to project air power worldwide
without depending on local bases for
staging aircraft operations. It is extremely
expensive to build and important to
protect. Aircraft carriers have evolved from
converted cruisers to nuclear-powered
warships that carry numerous fighter
planes, strike aircraft, helicopters, and
other types of aircraft.
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Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht . "Defense force" was the
unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to
1946. It consisted of the Heer (army), the
Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air
force). The designation Wehrmacht for Nazi
Germany's military replaced the previously used
term, Reichswehr (1919-1935), and constituted
the Third Reich’s efforts to rearm the nation to a
greater extent than the small armed forces the
Treaty of Versailles permitted. The Reichswehr,
formed under the newly formed Weimar
Republic was the precursor to the Wehrmacht.
After the Nazi Revolution, one of Hitler’s most
overt and audacious moves was to establish a
mighty fighting force (the Wehrmacht), a
modern armed forces fully capable of offensive
use.
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Radars
The entire technology of radar, which is
the ability to use radio waves to detect
objects at a distance, was barely invented
at the start of the war but became highly
developed in just a few years at sites like
the “Radiation Laboratory” at MIT. By
allowing people to “see” remotely, at very
long distances, radar made the idea of
“surprise attack” virtually obsolete and
vastly enlarged the arena of modern
warfare (today’s radars can see potential
attackers from thousands of miles away).
Radar allowed nations to track incoming
air attacks, guided bombers
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Mine
An agreed upon estimate approximates
that land mines were deployed in the multi
millions. Basically there were antipersonnel mines and anti-tank mines.The
latter were generally detonated by a heavy
weight and the former with lower
explosive power that fired out steel ball
bearings in all directions about waist high.
The Brits referred to this "S" mine as a
"Bouncing Betty".
http://www.history-of-american-wars.com/world-war-2weapons.html#mines
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Submachine Guns
The Thompson gun had its origin at the
end of world War 1. It was the notorious
weapon of choice for 1930's gangsters
when known as the "Tommy" gun.The gun
was fully automatic. (Gun continuously
fires as long as the trigger remains
depressed.)
http://www.history-of-american-wars.com/world-war-2weapons.html#smallarms
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M1 Carbine
The M1 Carbine is a carbine version of the
Garand semi-automatic rifle that was a
standard firearm in the USA military
during World War II and the Korean War.
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Driving question
How can we learn from the past events
surrounding WWII to better participate in
the present and to help influence the
future? The past repeats itself. But we can
change that. With the new technology the
world has it will be easy to not let this
happen again. We will learn from
mistakes. We will help the future by not
making a WWIII.
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