List of secondary and special-issue World War II infantry weapons

This is a list of weapons which, while not being mainstream, were used in significant enough numbers to warrant mention.

Canada

• Inglis Browning Hi-Power

China

• Colt M1911
• Browning Hi-Power (Burma Campaign X-Forces and Y-Forces)
• Tommy Gun M1928A1 (U.S Lend Lease, later local produced Chinese copies)
• M3 submachine gun (U.S Lend Lease)
• M1903 Springfield rifle (U.S Lend Lease)
• M1917 Enfield rifle (U.S Lend Lease)
• M1918 BAR (U.S Lend Lease)
• MG 34 (Chinese copy)

Finland

• Chauchat
• Ruby pistol

France

• MAC 31
• MAC 1934

Germany

• MG81 medium machine gun
• FG 42 light machine gun
• MP 3008 A late war German copy of the British Sten
• Volkssturmgewehr 1-5
• EMP 44
• StG45
• Mondragón rifle
• Walther PPK 7.65 semi auto pistol that was issued primarily to officers.
• Pistole 657(n):Licensed copy of the Colt 1911, originally made in Norway by Kongsberg for the Norwegian armed forces.^[1][2]
• Pistole 660(a)
• Sturmgewehr 44
• Gewehr 43
• Volksmaschinengewehr VMG-27
• Wimmersperg Spz-kr
• Browning wz.1928
• M30 Luftwaffe drilling
• Volkspistole
• ZB vz. 26

Greece

• EPK (Pyrkal) Machine gun

Italy

• FNAB-43 submachine gun
• TZ-45 submachine gun

Japan

• Nambu Type 94 semi-auto pistol
• Type 26 revolver
• Type 2 submachine gun
• TERA rifles (Type 100, Type 1, Type 2)
• Type 98 Heavy Machine Gun

Poland

• Błyskawica submachine gun
• Bechowiec-1 submachine gun
• Polski Sten submachine gun

United Kingdom

• DeLisle carbine
• Lanchester SMG
• M1895 Colt Machine gun (Issued to the Home Guard)
• M1917 Browning machine gun (Issued to the Home Guard)
• M1917 revolver (Issued to the Home Guard)
• Martini-Enfield (Issued to the Home Guard)
• Pattern M1917 (Issued to the Home Guard)
• Ross Rifle (Issued to the Home Guard)
• Welrod silenced pistol

United States

• High Standard HDM pistol
• M1941 Johnson rifle
• M1941 Johnson machine gun
• M42 United Defense submachine gun
• M50 Reising submachine gun
• M97 Shotgun (Used in the Pacific War)
• M12 Shotgun (Used in the Pacific War)
• Ithaca 37 (Used in the Pacific War)
• Browning Auto-5 (Used in the Pacific War)

USSR

• AVS-36 full-auto rifle

Prototype weapons

Weapons that never saw real service in World War II. Usually prototypes, it also includes those that made it to trial. The production and usage of these weapons was very low.

Norway

• Eriksen M/25 machine gun

Poland

• Mors submachine gun

United States

• M2 Hyde submachine gun

Japan

• Type 5 Rifle

See also

• List of common World War II infantry weapons
• List of World War II firearms of Germany
• List of rifle cartridges, handgun cartridges

Notes