List of common World War II infantry weapons

This is a list of infantry weapons which were in mainstream use during World War II (1939–1945).

Australia

Two Australian soldiers equipped with Owen submachine guns

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

  • Mills bomb No. 36M

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Austria

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1895

Machine guns

  • Browning M1918
  • Schwarzlose M1907/12
  • MG 30

Belgium

Edged weapons

  • M1924 bayonet

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

  • Hotchkiss M1914

Heavy machine guns

Anti-tank weapons

Brazil

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Shotguns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

  • Browning M1919
  • Hotchkiss M1914

Heavy machine guns

  • Browning M1917
  • Browning M2
  • MG 08

Grenades

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

Bulgaria

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Canada

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

China

Weapons used by the National Revolutionary Army, as well as Communist forces and Chinese Warlords

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

  • Browning M1919 (Medium machine gun, American Lend Lease in Burma)
  • Hotchkiss M1914

Heavy machine guns

Grenades

Flamethrowers

  • M1A1 flamethrower

Anti-tank weapons

Independent State of Croatia

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Automatic rifles

  • Sturmgewehr 44

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

  • M1924 Stielhandgranate
  • M1924 Smoke grenade

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Czechoslovak Republic

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

Grenades

  • Makeshift grenades and bombs
  • Danish M1923

Anti-tank weapons

  • Madsen 20 mm anti-tank cannon
  • 37 mm Fodfolkskanon M1937 (Danish Bofors 37 mm)

Estonia

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Anti-tank weapons

Finland

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Mines

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

Anti-aircraft weapons

France

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Shotguns

  • Winchester M1897
  • Winchester M1912

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Mortars

  • Brandt M1927/31

Anti-tank weapons

Guided explosive weapons

Germany

German paratrooper carrying a MG 42

Edged weapons

Flare guns

  • Krieghoff L flare pistole

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Shotguns

Select fire intermediate cartridge automatic rifles

  • FG 42 (Battle rifle)
  • MKb 42(H)
  • MKb 42(W)
  • Sturmgewehr 44

Rifles

Sniper rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

  • M1924 Stielhandgranate
  • M1939 Eiergranate
  • M1943 Stielhandgranate
  • Splitterring (Fragmentation ring for the M1924 Stielhandgranate and the M1943 Stielhandgranate)

Grenade launchers

Mines

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Guided explosive weapons

Greece

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns

  • Schwarzlose M1907-12

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Hungary

Flare guns

  • 20M flare pistol
  • 42M flare pistol
  • 43M flare pistol

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

  • 30M rifle
  • 31M rifle
  • 35M rifle
  • 38M rifle
  • 95M Mannlicher
  • Steyr-Mannlicher M1895

Machine guns

Grenades

Mines

  • 36M mine
  • 43M mine

Anti-tank weapons

Italy

Edged weapons

  • M1891 sciabola baionetta (Sword bayonet)
  • M1891/38 pugnale baionetta (Dagger bayonet)

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Light machine guns

Medium machine guns

Heavy machine guns

Grenades

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Japan

Japanese soldiers with a Type 92 machine gun during the 1941 Battle of Changsha

Edged weapons

Flare guns

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Semi-automatic rifles

  • Pedersen rifle (One of these were recovered from Okinowa)
  • Arisaka Type 5 rifle

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

  • Type 4 grenade
  • Type 10 fragmentation hand/discharger grenade
  • Type 91 fragmentation hand/discharger grenade
  • Type 97 fragmentation hand grenade
  • Type 98 grenade
  • Type 99 hand/rifle fragmentation grenade
  • M1924 Stielhandgranate

Grenade dischargers

  • Type 10
  • Type 89

Mines

Flamethrowers

  • Type 93 and Type 100

Mortars

  • Type 2 12 cm Mortar
  • Type 11 70 mm Infantry Mortar
  • Type 90 light mortar
  • Type 94 90 mm Infantry Mortar
  • Type 96 150 mm Infantry Mortar
  • Type 97 81 mm Infantry Mortar
  • Type 97 90 mm Infantry Mortar
  • Type 97 150 mm Infantry Mortar
  • Type 98 50 mm Mortar
  • Type 99 81 mm mortar

Anti-tank weapons

  • Type 97 20 mm anti-tank rifle

Guided explosive weapons

  • I-Go (Remote controlled explosive machine)

Latvia

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

  • M1924 Stielhandgranate

Lithuania

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Luxembourg

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Anti-tank weapons

British Malaya

Edged weapons

Sidearms

  • Browning HP
  • Colt M1911A1
  • Smith & Wesson Model 10
  • Webley Mk IV
  • Nambu Type 14
  • Luger P-08

Submachine guns

Shotguns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Anti-tank weapons

Manchukuo

Sidearms

  • Mauser Type 1 pistol
  • Mauser Type 2 or 3 pistol

Rifles

  • Arisaka Type 38 carbine
  • Arisaka Type 38 rifle
  • Arisaka Type 99 rifle
  • Liao Type 13 rifle
  • Manchurian Mauser rifle

Machine guns

Grenade dischargers

Mexico

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Anti-tank weapons

Mongolia

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Netherlands

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Anti-tank weapons

New Zealand

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Anti-tank weapons

Norway

Sidearms

  • Colt M1911 (Some were purchased prior to production of M1914)
  • Norwegian Colt M1911 Kongsberg (Standard issue for the Norwegian army until 1940)
  • Nagant M1895 (Earlier service pistol that preceded the M1914 in service. Still in use by 1940.)
  • Luger P08

Shotguns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

  • Makeshift grenades and bombs

Poland

Sidearms

Submachine gun

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

  • Molotov fire grenade
  • wz.1933 fragmentation grenade
  • wz.1933 concussion grenade
  • wz.S smoke grenade

Grenade launchers

  • Granatnik wz.36

Flamethrowers

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

Light machine guns

Heavy machine guns

  • Schwarzlose M1907/12 (As Kulomet vz. 24)

Mortars

  • 80 mm vz. 36 (Medium mortar)

South Africa

Sidearms

  • Webley revolver

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Mortars

  • 2-inch mortar

Anti-tank weapons

Soviet Union

Soviet partisans in Belarus, armed with PPD-40 submachine gun and a Mosin-Nagant rifle

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Automatic rifles and battle rifles

Rifles

Anti-tank rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Grenade launchers

Mines

  • TM-35 mine (Anti-tank mine)
  • PMK-40 (Anti-personnel mine)

Flamethrowers

Anti-tank weapons

Thailand

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Grenade dischargers

Anti-tank weapons

United Kingdom (including British Empire)

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

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Sniper rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

  • No.36M Mk.I (Fragmentation hand/rifle grenade known as "Mills bomb")
  • No. 68 AT Grenade (HEAT anti-tank rifle grenade)
  • No.69 Mk.I (Concussion hand grenade)
  • No. 73 Grenade (Also known as "Thermos grenade", anti-tank grenade)
  • No.74 ST Grenade (Known as "sticky bomb", anti-tank hand grenade)
  • No.75 Anti-Tank Hand Grenade (Known as "Hawkins grenade" or "Hawkins mine")
  • No. 76 Special Incendiary Grenade (Phosphorus hand grenade)
  • No 77 grenade (White phosphorus hand grenade)
  • No.82 Hand Grenade (Known as "Gammon grenade/bomb")

Obstacle clearing explosive charges

Flamethrowers

Mortars

  • 2-inch mortar
  • Ordnance ML 3-inch Mortar

Anti-tank weapons

Guided explosive weapons

United States of America

Two American soldiers with M1 Garand rifles

Edged weapons

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Shotguns (Commonly used by the Marines in the Pacific theater, limited use in Europe)

Rifles

Sniper rifles

Recoilless rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Grenade launchers

Obstacle clearing explosive charges

Flamethrowers

Mortars

Anti-tank weapons

Yugoslavia

Sidearms

Submachine guns

Rifles

Machine guns

Grenades

Flamethrowers

  • Flammenwerfer 42 (Captured)

Anti-tank weapons

See also

References

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