The M1 Garand is one of the single most famous and recognizable rifles in the entire world. It served as the standard-issue battle rifle for all of the United States’ land forces throughout the entirety of World War II.
The SMLE was a shortened and modernized version of the Lee Metford and Lee Enfield MLE. Its size was beneficial to the military providing one service rifle instead of a mixture of rifles and carbines. It would serve Britain throughout both World Wars and for the commonwealth throughout the 20th century.
The ‘Chauchat’ or “Fusil Mitrailleur Modele 1915 CSRG” was the standard machine rifle or light machine gun of the French Army during World War I.
The Beretta Model 1918 did not require production of many new parts which was beneficial to Italy’s poor industrial capabilities. The Model 1918 design was one side of the dual weapon Villar Perosa, set in a shortened wooden Carcano stock, and given a trigger and folding bayonet.
(Secret Weapon) The Standschütze Hellriegel 1915 was an Austro-Hungarian prototype submachine gun developed in 1915. Little is known about this weapon.
Shooting from the trenches meant that a soldier had to stand up over the parapet, exposing his head in order to aim at the enemy, posing a perfect target for enemy snipers. Therefore, soldiers needed to find a way to shoot the enemy without the risk of being exposed and shot..
During the evacuation of Gallipoli by the Allies, which started in December 1915, an ingenious invention was constructed on the battlefield by ANZAC forces to deceive the ottoman enemy into thinking a large force was still firing back at them, when in reality the rifles were shooting without a person pulling the trigger!
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