1930-1940

Student 19- Researcher- Sue Park Student 20- Typest- Samantha Payne 4/21/2010

War Weapons Medical

= = 1930-"In the 1930's, the British army needed a new machine gun, to replace the old Lewis Gun, which had been in service sinceWorld War One. The British Military Attache looked at the design on the Czech ZB26. During testing, they found that it performed so well, that they decided to adopt it. But for the British version, it was modified to chamber the .303 rimmedcartridge, and the magazine was curved. In the late 1930's, the Bren was produced in widely in Canada, and produced in 7.92mm in China. The Bren is probably one of the finest and most reliable machine guns ever made. In combat the Bren could be used by one man, but sometimes required a two man crew, one for firing, and one for changing out the barrels. Unloaded, the Bren weighed a heavy, 22.38 lbs."

1931-The PPD-34/38, developed by V.A. Degtjarev, is little more than a copy of the german MP-28 although features from the Finnish m/1931 Suomi are also present, the 71 round drum being a direct copy. The Soviets used a small number of these weapons during the Spanish Civil war and again during the Russo-Finnish Winter war. The Soviets decided the submachinegun was to be an important weapon in future wars. An improved design the PPD-1940 was introduced in 1940 but like the earlier designs it was too complicated for mass production. A less complex weapon was desired and the result was the PPSh-41.

1932-"This British 6 shot revolver was first invented in 1932 as Webley Mk VI. It has an extensive history as being used in Boer War, World War One, and World War Two, as well as being used by many police around the world. It weighed 1.72 lbs. unloaded, and used the big .455 round, but later became available in the .38 cartridge. This pistol was self-cocking, which most soldier's prefferedin combat. Approximately 125,000 Webley's were manufactured."

1933- "was developted by Captain Boys in the 1930's. The Boys wasreally just an oversized bolt action rifle, fed from a top-mountedmagazine. The BOYS weighed 36 lbs. unloaded, and used a .55caliber round. A muzzle brake was added, and the stock was heavilypadded, all in an attempt to reduce the heavy recoil. The Boys had a maximum armor penetration of 20mm. After the Boys was taken out of service for the PIAT, it came back in 1942 in a shortened version.But it was later seen that the Boys stood no chance at the modern tanks and was put out of service."

1934-Fascist Italy was a second wheel on the Axis, and was, also, played a strong part in World War 2. Their more common weapons tended to lean towards guns handguns, rifles, and machine guns.

1935-The Bren Light Machine Gun was the standard light machine gun of the Second World War. Developed in the early 1930's in an effort to replace the aging Lewis machine guns that the British Army relied on, the Bren actually had its origins in a Czech design designated as the ZB vz/26. The Czech ZB vz/26 was chambered to fire the Mauser 7.92mm rimless cartridge. As such, British authorities requested that the new light machine gun design be based around the 303 British rimmed-type cartridge.

1936-The MG34 could be operated from an adjustable bipod system, a light and a heavy tripod assembly. The bipod allowed for portability of the weapon in the squad support role with a decrease in overall accuracy when firing in burst or full automatic. The light tripod allowed for the system to engage targets (either land-based or anti-aircraft) in a more stationary role with improved accuracy. Lastly, the heavy tripod mounting allowed the machine gun to fall into the "heavy" classification and fire from only the belt fed ammunition type. This form of the MG34 could also fill the anti-aircraft role as easily as it could engage troops and light vehicles. This flexibility allowed the MG34 to become, in essence, the world's first general purpose machine gun.

1937-Among the most famous products from Colt are the Walker Colt used by the UnitedStatesMountedRifles in the Mexican-American War and the "Colt .45" revolver, the proper name of which was the SingleAction Army or Peacemaker. Later well-known CMC revolvers include the Colt Python and Colt Anaconda. John Browning also worked for Colt for a time, and came up with now ubiquitous parallel slide type of design for a pistol, which debuted on the Colt M1900 pistol, leading to numerous pistol designs including the famous Colt M1911pistol.

1938-Besa Mk3-was a tank and armored vehicle-mounted machine gun originally based on a Czechoslovakian vz. 37 (ZB53) tank machine gun design. Often considered quite accurate thanks to a modified recoil system, the Besa Mk 3 was fitted to fire the 7.92mm cartridge. Though most British machine guns were built around their .303 cartridge, the decision was made to stick to the 7.92mm in order to avoid any production delays of the Besa to frontline units in 1938

1939-the Japanese’s first direct purchase was for 2150 of the Czech weapons in 7.92mm for use in their war against the Chinese. The Chinese had already been producing the weapon under license for 10 years before in various arsenals and private industrial firms in China and Manchuria.

They did not have a lot of medicine back then and they had to deal with what pain that they had and or did have but they used a lot of acohol on cuts and if they got shot or stabbed they would bandage them up and send them on there way and they would live or they would die it depended on how strong there body was at the time.