What you will find in this powerpoint  What weapons were used in WW2  What tank the German and British forces used (few of them)  How a German grenade was made  How a British force grenade was made

Panzer I A very small light tank (6 tons) with a crew of two, driver and commander, armed with two light 0.3" machine guns (with 1500 rounds), which was produced in the mid 1930s as a training tank.

Another German Tank Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank, Germany Crew 2 Weight 62 metric tonnes Length 7.7m Width 3.7m Height 3m Maximum Speed 72km/hr Maximum Range 500km

M4 Sherman M4 Sherman Armament: mm gun ".MG I - 0.5" MG Speed 24 mph Range: 100 miles Weight: 30 tons Most important british tank of WWII. Over 50,000 built. Same engine and suspension as the M3, but a new turret mounted a 75mm gun. Engine supply was a problem, so many types were used. Large quantities were furnished to the British and Soviets.

The German grenade is a stick grenade. It is basically a handle with an explosive charge at top of it. This made it easier to throw further and more accurately. To make it more deadly they could slide a metal sleeve over the charge at the top which made more shrapnel. The grenades were used as traps for both Germans and Allies. The nick name for the German grenade was the potato masher. The German grenade was more of an offensive grenade then the Allied grenade. An offensive grenade has less fragments than a defensive one. Offensive grenades rely on a blast and the defensive grenade relies on fragment spreading. The German grenade was easier to throw further and accurate then the allied pineapple grenade.

Anti-Tank No. 74, also known as the STICKY BOMB, was a British hand grenade designed and produced during the Second World War. The grenade was one of a number of anti-tank weapons designed for use by the British Army the grenade consisted of a glass sphere containing nitroglycerin covered in a powerful adhesive, and surrounded by a sheet-metal casing. Nitroglycerin is a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol. When the user pulled a pin on the handle of the grenade, the casing would fall away and expose the sphere; another pin would activate the firing mechanism, and the user would then attempt to attach the grenade to a German tank or vehicle with sufficient force to break the sphere. After it was attached, releasing the lever on the handle would activate a five-second fuse, which would then detonate the nitroglycerin.