what type of weapons were used in the battle of dunkirk, world war 2?

Answer 1

Dunkirk was a rout of the British Expeditionary Force by the German Army who were sweeping into France and driving everything before them.

Standard British Army weapons of the time were mostly unchanged from the First World War equipment that most of those soldier's fathers had used.

The German Army had what equipment it had managed to build up between the wars, and some weapons taken from the countries they had already manage to occupy, most especially some excellent equipment out of Czechoslavakia.

The standard infantry weapon on both sides was a medium caliber bolt action rifle fed from an internal magazine. Semi-automatic weapons were not in use on either side as standard issue, and automatic weapons were mostly submachine guns chambered in pistol calibers such as 9x19mm....aka 9mm parabellum or luger.

Handguns consisted of mostly .38 caliber revolvers on the British side, and a mix of accquired from former opponents designs and chamberings to supplement the rather delicate 9mm Luger standard issue pistol left over from the First World War for the Germans.

The Brits by the time of Dunkirk had pretty much abandoned what heavy armaments they posessed in their haste to stay ahead of the advancing Germans, so not much artillery or armored vehicles remained to hold off the Wermacht.

The Germans consisted of motorized and mechanized units that were successful more for their operational deployment than for any disparity in quality over their French and British conterparts. The Germans were winning at this point more for how they fought than what they used to fight with.

That being said, the Germans did bring increasing amounts of artillery and air support to bear on the encircled British, and were pressing them hard to surrender or be destroyed as a viable combat force.

The weapons and equipment used by the Germans and the Allied forces later in the war did not exist at this point. There were no American forces involved, and precious little American equipment had been delivered to England. Many people still thought of the entire conflict as yet another European war that was best left for Europeans to deal with.

The vast majority of the weapons used were still the leftovers from 25 years earlier, with a small number of slightly improved designs.

For all their much publicized mechanized blitzkrieg approach to warfare, the German army continued to rely heavily on horse-drawn equipment, and continued to do so throught the war.

The British at Dunkirk were making due with the remainders of what could be spared to support the French, and ended up losing every bit of military equipment that could not be evacuated in haste as they fled the battlefield.

The entire battle was more in the nature of an eviction than anything else....with the Germans throwing the Brits off the continent so they could get back to pounding the French into the ground.

Answer 2

At the beginning of the Second World War, the Marines were still equipped with the bolt action Springfield M1903 rifle. The M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle and M1 carbine (standard Army weapons) replaced the Springfield in 1942, though many M1903s were kept as sniper rifles. For much of the war, the Marines used the same infantry and artillery weapons that the Army had, with the addition of some Johnson automatic rifles and Riesing submachine guns. The Marine corps used LVT amphibious tractors, as well as Stuart light tanks and M4A2 Sherman medium tanks. The Marine Corps also used F4F Wildcat and F4U Corsair fighter planes and SBD Dauntless divebombers.

Answer 3

Dunkirk ? This was when the Brits tried to invade on their own The only weapons I know about were row boats back to the U k It was almost over for them If the Germans had gone all out they had over 250000 exposed Of course a few years later they were able to invade with a little help from what use to be your friends But y'all did it didn't you!

Answer 4

Weberlies, light and heavy MG's, carbines and assault rifles on both sides. The Brits also had some of those useless French MG's, most of which were used for clubs. The snipers were using a variety of hunting rifles and scopes. The Germans also had tanks for support. Once the weather lifted, the Allies had air support of sorts for the evacuation.

Answer 5

Well one oldie, but goodie was the Army, Colt .45 side arm issued to Sergeants and above!! They used this one when they got wasy too close for comfort!! Plus it had tremendous take down power!!!!

Answer 6

Hundreds if not thousands of different weapons were used.

There is neither the time or space to list them here.

Answer 7

procly, thompsons, m1 garands, kar98s, mp40s-44s,browning assualt rifle


(Thank you very much call of duty)

Answer 8

.45, assault riffles. German tanks. sniper riffles. and a few mortars.

Answer 9

i have no idea wat ur talking about is it a video game or something

Answer 10

BRAINS AND BALLS!!!!!