During World War II the Allies and the Axis advanced greatly in weaponry and strategy. There were advances of tanks, artillery, planes, and zeppelins. They also conquered their enemies’ weaponry and advanced it to make it stronger than their kind of vehicles.
Allies had many different types of weapons. Some of them were the same, and some were different than the Axis. Zeppelins for example. First off, many people do not know what a zeppelin is. A zeppelin is an air craft that looked like a blimp, but had armored plates and went 56 mph. They got shot down often by enemies so they advanced them in technology to reach an incredible 20,000 feet. Our allies, the British, shot down enemy zeppelins with the invention of incendiary bullets, which shot into the hydrogen bag. This caused it to make a flame which made the whole zeppelin catch on fire. Not only did the Allies attack from the sky, but they used tanks and soldiers on the ground. The British helped out the Americans by moving in some troops and tanks. The A7V was a box shaped tank which was controlled from the top, with a crew of approximately 16 people. It was armed with a cannon and 6 machine guns. A gun carrier was half jeep, half tank. This was armed with many weapons to stop the Axis. There were many, many, tanks but these were the most important. Another very important tank was the British Mark IV. When a German army or infantry took over a tank, they usually put their symbol on it and used it with their fleet.
Of course, the Allies had hundreds of different types of guns, so I can only name a few. The Howitzer was a gun that shot shells that weighed over 1,786 pounds! These could only be shot every 6 minutes, but they definitely applied damage to the enemy. The Allies also had train guns. They would load shells weighing tons into the guns on the trains and send them along the tracks. The only disadvantage was a huge shell could knock a train off the tracks. They had machine guns ranging from 25mm to 400mm guns. Machine guns could either be loaded through belts, strips, magazines, or drums. The gigantic guns could not be shot one after another, or they would explode from the intense heat. So most guns got cooled down with air or water. Machine guns shot the fastest when being loaded from a belt of shells.
The allies consist of USA, France, Britain, Belgium, Australia, Brazil, China, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, and finally Yugoslavia.
The Axis were despised by the Americans, because of Pearl Harbor. Japan left them defenseless and struck them by surprise. So obviously, Japan was on the Axis side. Who else was with them? Well, Germany, Italy Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. They did not have nearly as many allies as we did. But was their technology better or worse than the Allies? Well it may surprise you but, it was better. The German soldiers had better guns and far more planes. The allies outnumbered them though. They had some of the same tanks as us. They also had the A7V and the Mark IVs. They had already set up bases around their countries, so when we attacked, they had the home land advantage and we lost many troops in the first few days. If the allies had no tanks or planes to reach and destroy the bases with huge guns, we would have never reached them alive. The Allies ran through heavy gunfire to reach a base. Most Allies coming onto the shore on boats got bombarded with German Maxim Machine guns. The full name for that gun is the German Machineengewehr 08! I know I can not pronounce it! After taking over the bases, the Allies established bases and put up their cannons. When we moved forward, we got hit with some German Howitzer, which depleted our infantry fast. This is when the Allies sent in their bombers to take them out. The Germans had very advanced weaponry. The Americans could have lost that war without all of there allies.
Today our tanks and guns are more advanced than they were back then. That war was well fought by both sides but the Allies won.
