Simple History WW2 Guns Still Being Used Today Posted: 7 February 2025 | Last updated: 10 February 2025 They may be old, outdated, and gathering dust, but World War Two weapons are still lethal ...

In the 1200s it protected Scotland from Vikings. During World War 2 it became a lookout tower and was fitted with anti-aircraft guns. Four bombs were dropped around the castle by German aircraft ...

Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, one of World War II’s most decorated Marines, received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross ...

50 calibre heavy machine guns, mounted on farm trailers towed by ... are all that separates them from Second World War infantry fighting off German Stuka bombers. Their weapon is, essentially ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship ... is mounted measures 3.2 meters in diameter.

In four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest ... period and 55,000 antiaircraft guns. In an attempt to coordinate government war agencies Roosevelt created the ...