What was the most famous weapon during World War 2?

Answer 1

the M1 Garand (pronounced grand) was used by most countrys involved in ww2 and the Thompson was used by i think even more countrys.

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That may be the "most famous" to military historians but the keeping to weapons not vehicles, among those that really mean anything to most people were the German V1 and V2, Japan's Kamikaze planes, the British "Dambuster" bombs and the two atomic bombs dropped by America on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The V1 was called the "flying bomb" or "doodlebug" - the latter referring to its distinctive exhaust noise - and was effectively a crude unmanned aircraft packed with explosives and designed to fly as far as London, its target. Once nearly over London its engine would cut out and it would drop onto the city.

The V2 was a ballistic missile (with conventional chemical-explosive warhead), i.e. one designed to fly under power to its zenith then fall parabolically to its target. The V2s were all aimed at London. (Towards the end of the War the Nazis were building a V3 weapon in NE France: a battery of 90-mile range 6"-calibre guns intended to maintain a steady fall of shells onto London. The battery was discovered though not fully identified, its construction slowed by bombing, then captured after the Normandy Landings.)

The Kamikaze were suicide-pilots, deliberately flying fighter-planes loaded with explosives at their targets. They were used particularly against the American Navy in the Pacific.

The Dambuster bombs were very heavy, spherical weapons that were spun up to high speeds of rotation in mountings on modified Lancaster bombers. The spinning ensured that once the bomb had been dropped from a carefully-set height above the reservoir it would skim along the surface then keep itself against the dam wall as it struck that and sank. This was so it would detonate right against the concrete deep under the water.

Answer 2

The most popular weapons were normally the most used/produced weapons.

1. For the US Infantry-the M-1 Garand semi-automatic rifle and the M-1 Carbine.

2. For the US Navy-Destroyers

3. For the US Army Air Force-B-17 Bombers

4. For the US Army armored forces-M4 Sherman tanks

5. For the US Marine Corps-.45 caliber Thompson Sub-machine guns and the M1 Carbine.

The US Navy most deadly weapon was the Aircraft Carrier (meaning the strike airplanes that were carried upon it). However, the Destroyer was the most produced and USED naval warship of WW2.

The US Military was the ONLY military in WW2 completely armed with a semiautomatic rifle (M1 Garand Rifle). Everyone, both friend and foe alike, were armed with bolt action rifles.

The M4 Sherman tank was the most used and produced tank of WW2, excepting possibly, the USSR's T-34 tank.

The USAAF's B-17 was used from the beginning of WW2 to the end of it. Without the B-17, there would have been no need of the fighter planes of WW2...fighters were to PROTECT the bombers and ATTACK bombers.

US Marines liked to carry short range, easy to carry, weapons with lots of firepower; the Thompson submachine gun and M1 carbine fit that bill.

And the brits: the sten mkII and the lee enfield mk III( with a 10 round strip mag

Answer 3

A single weapon strike, would have to be the A bomb.

Conceptually speaking, Propaganda has cost more lives. Truly, the pen is mightier than the sword in this sense. Predominantly it is religion that throughout recorded history has given rise to the most war propaganda.

The definitive answer is that one of the oldest weapons is responsible for taking the most lives. Guns and bombs are such recent innovations in the time scale of human history that they could never compete with the humble bow and arrow, which has been around since Neolithic times and on every continent except Australia. Only the atlatyl (a lever operated spear) is older than the bow and was almost completely replaced by it more than 10,000 yeas ago. All the great empires employed bows in warfare: the Mongols, Phonecians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and even Medieval Britain.

Answer 4

the weapon that killed the most people in WW2 was artillery then the MG42 because they sat them on the German bunkers on D day and shot almost 97,000,000 bullets OMG sucks to be there at that time

Answer 5

M-1 Garand or PPSh 41 or M-1 carbine 6 million each

Sten 4 million

Answer 6

The deadliest weapon has to be the German mg-42.

Answer 7

Probably the SMG's or MGS