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John C. Garand: The Role Of Weapons In War

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In war, the opponents are all out fighting to the death with weapons ever since the existence of man, but what separates the victorious and the defeated? It’s of course, how we fight against our combatant by what we use to obliterate them. So now you’re wondering what i’m concluding to, but you might just overlooking something in particular in my last sentence. If you just add the word weapon right after what you will discover how to whole sentence creates a slightly differently meaning. I’m going to decode how weapons evolved throughout the war and why the countries that won the war couldn’t have won without their inventions of mass destructions.(cough* atomic bomb* cough*) While european army were more and more inexperienced during the …show more content…

In March 16th of 1936, knowing of a second war coming, John C. Garand released the M1 for general use for the second great war. The rifle was bolt actioned, but soon was later advanced to a semi automatic rifle for all snipers to release more bullets than the Japanese Arisaka. Even though the Springfield was the original sniper, the U.S stopped distributing it to get a slight advantage during the battles of Iwo Jima and offensive in Italy. And then there was Britain slacking off, but don’t give up on britain just …show more content…

This calamitous monster mutilated 200,000 people during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was completely in ruins. The bombs Fat Man and Little Boy were both made of two different types of elements named Uranium and Plutonium, the elements react to any type of explosive causing a massive explosion. The Japanese surrendered right after the dropping of Fat Man, leading to the end of the second world war. But there was one country we haven’t mentioned that were the ones responsible for the evolutionary assault rifle, Russia’s very own

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