Thread 63986751

The pickelhaube is unquestionably the most famous piece of equipment from WWI. What's the most famous piece of equipment from WWII?

M40 or gas mask can

>>63986751 (OP)
The jerry can

>>63986751 (OP)
Zyclon B canister
because fantasy sells better than history

>>63986797
The reality of the holocaust is no longer relevant. It has been long enough, that if it did happen, it is no longer an excuse for Israelis to behave the way they do. If any jew tries to use it to get away with shit, you can throw it right back at them with "What was that, almost a century ago?" "That ain't a blank check for you to act like a piece of shit." Or alternatively you tell them to get down of their cross, take it apart, use the wood to build a bridge, and get the fuck over it, because again, that was almost a century ago, are there even any living "holocaust survivors" left? And don't hit me with that oh I'm a holocaust survivor because if my grandpa had died I wouldn't be alive right now nonsense.

>>63986751 (OP)
Jesus Christ, what were they thinking. Thing looks a butt plug.

>>63986884
Now, please elaborate as to why would that be the first thing that you think of when you see this helmet?

>>63986889
i'm gay

>>63986751 (OP)
>What's the most famous piece of equipment from WWII?
Hands down, Garand.

>>63986751 (OP)
Pineapple grenade
so utterly ubiquitous that its synonymous with the popular idea of a grenade despite being only really an american thing.

B-17 or B-29

You're objectively wrong which means your post is bait and that you are, on top of that, a FAGGOT.

>>63986751 (OP)
>What's the most famous piece of equipment from WWII?
Again, the German helmet

>>63986904
>despite being only really an american thing.
*British thing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_bomb

>>63986926
Even then the American copy wasn't as good as the Mills or the F1

>>63986921
>>63986751 (OP)
Eternally kino

You will die in honour, and you are happy

If "equipment" includes armor and aircraft it becomes really complicated since combined arms was a much bigger thing in WW2.

>>63986751 (OP)
>only relevant for 12-16 months of the war
>still epitomous for WW1
Weid how that works with a public's understanding of things.

>>63986904
Wouldn't that be too ubiquitous in post-ww2 armies and media? Pineapple grenades are closer to being the ideal of a grenade for the average person than for ww2.

>>63986751 (OP)
MG42

>>63986751 (OP)
the nuke

>>63987188
>Pineapple grenades are closer to being the ideal of a grenade for the average person than for ww2.
ACTUALLY the question in OP was the most famous piece of equipment from WW2, not whether it was commonly associated with WW2

>>63987257
Fair enough

>>63987188
>Weid how that works with a public's understanding of things.
It was widely used in propaganda pieces of the age, it also was a thing before WW1. It just became associated with germans since it was distinct at the time.

>>63986751 (OP)
>What's the most famous piece of equipment from WWII?

>>63986751 (OP)
Sherman tank. When people think tanks they usually think a Sherman or something based on one.

>>63987199
Correct

>>63986751 (OP)
Tiger Tank.

Everybody knew it, even though they had never seen one.

>>63986751 (OP)
For WW1 it's the gas mask, Flammenwerfer, Vickers or the mark I tank.

For WW2 it's definitely something German but the question is what.
Stahlhelm, Luger, SS uniform, Tiger 1, MP40, STG 44, Mg42, Ju 87, V1, V2, Type VIIC, Me262, Nebelwerfer.

Russians
T34, no contest.
Americans
B17, Iowa class, P51, M2, Thompson
British
Spitfire

>>63987488
No Italians?

i like wearing one on when i’m on my motorcycle :)

>>63987529
Italians get forgotten all the time, just like the french, minor axis members and many others.

>>63987199
Best post itt, even people who don't know fuck shit about anything know what a nuke is.

>>63986751 (OP)
Probably the tanks. Particularly the T-34 seeing how much the Soviets and later the Russians glaze it.
>>63986884
...It has a flanged base?

>>63986884
its to hold the big fluffy thingies that troops used to wear

>>63986751 (OP)
Pijamas

Tommy gun

>>63986751 (OP)
The pickelhaube isn't even the most famous German helmet from the first World War. The 1916 with the lugs pretty much defines the image of "faceless, anonymous soldier in a war of machines"

>>63986969
Are there any recorded instances of these knocking out a tank?

>>63987529
Which side were they on, again?

>>63987675
But it isn't as associated with WW1 as it is with WW2. People dont think of it as a WW1 helmet and only know about the later models from WW2 propaganda.

>>63986751 (OP)
>>63987657
Hands down the Tommy gun, literally every noguns knows what it is and I don't think you can say the same for any other gun from the period.
Olive drab uniforms, jeep with the star, stick grenades and >>63986921 are close by

>>63986751 (OP)
>most famous
I'm gonna assume you mean imagery/things that have survived into the modern zeitgeist and not just among WW2 autist circles, so..

The M1 Garand, the Sherman tank, or the Jeep. Take your pick

>>63987945
I would argue that most noguns know the Tommy from gangster era stories/films and not strictly from WW2

>>63987945
Nah. It's associated with prohibition era gangsters, with the big drum mag. As a teenager, before reading up on WW2 and weapons, I didn't even know it was the same gun, and I only knew it from gangster movies.
When I've mentioned it to others who don't know or care much about guns, they've also associated it primarily with gangsters, and have been unaware of its use in WW2.
Around here, the most iconic WW2 guns among plebs would be Mausers, Schmeissers (actually MP 40) and Lugers, to put it in their parlance.
As for the most "iconic" piece of equipment from WW2, I'd say the Tiger, the Spitfire or the Stahlhelm.

>>63987945
When it comes to iconic US small arms from WW2 the Garand has to it

>>63986751 (OP)
Outside of our weapons autist community it would have to be the nooks, normies aren't being to be able to name a rifle, plane, tank or ship but they will all know about the nukes.

>>63988072
>normies aren't being to be able to name
I cringe every time when they call any warship a battleship.

>>63988138
Its a ship, it goes into a battle, its a battleship. ChequeM8 Cope and sneed
>I will not elaborate

>>63986751 (OP)
.380 ACP

>>63988151
b-but you already elaborated?

>>63988159
damn, outjerked again by my own brain

>>63988138
>mfw I call anything with tracks and a turret a "tank" in my ARMA group just to trigger every

>>63986751 (OP)
The swastika.

>>63988176
Thats not a piece of equipment anon

>>63987973
>>63988046
>>63988060
Fair to say there is a lot of overlap with the gangster imagery, my first exposures to it were probably Home Alone and CoD 3 as a kid and it took me a while to connect the dots but I dont think it invalidates its association with the war. I still feel like it's probably the gun most associated with WW2, pretty much any WW2 movie or game is going to feature someone running and gunning with their Thompson in some standout scene and everyone in the audience is going to be able to point and go "look it's da tommy gun". Normies dont even know what a Luger is despite it being extremely iconic, I remember having to explain how to pronounce it to my high school English teacher and class when we were reading Of Mice and Men because they had no idea what it was.

>>63988233
I wouldn't even put it in the top ten, unless we're only talking about what a specific fudd subtype would find iconic.

>>63986751 (OP)
>e pickelhaube is unquestionably the most famous piece of equipment from WWI.
1911.
>What's the most famous piece of equipment from WWII?
M1911A1.

>>63988168
>POOM POOM POOM in your field wrecking your infantry before sculling away like a ferret
Cuteπ

>>63988046
I think a ton of normies associate the 1911 with WWII even if it existed much earlier.

>>63986751 (OP)
the mushroom cloud

>>63986751 (OP)
It was designed to deflect saber strikes from horse mounted Calvary attacks, this is also why the helmet is leather and was why soldiers of the 19th. Century would wear their sleeping bags and coats over the shoulder to further help with sword deflection

>>63988958
That was an after the fact rationalization. If they actually wanted to protect against sabres they would have made the entire thing from metal and saved themselves the spike. It was designed to look iconic and imposing, which in fairness it did. But people were criticizing it and demanding something more practical (like a simple wool cap) well before WW1.

Almost as big a lasting cultural footprint as t-shirts and flip flops

>>63986751 (OP)
Equipment as in not a weapon or vehicle?
Then >>63986921
That or parachutes.

>>63988983
>If they actually wanted to protect against sabres they would have made the entire thing from metal
Anon... they originally made it out of metal.
They just switched to leather with metal reinforcements for the infantry because it was deemed to be too heavy.

>>63987945
That is an incredibly based movie.

>>63987623
I hold your moms big floofy thing.

>>63989120
It’s a bernadoodle and she just got her haircut.

>>63989077
Where metal reinforcements?

>>63989160
A lot of other countries in the 19th century did the leather or pith helmet w/spike too for the same reason, metal helmets really didn’t come into being mainstream until Wwi really set in

>>63987192
Ma duece is still in use in the year of our lord 2000+25. Get fucked krauts

>>63986751 (OP)
>What's the most famous piece of equipment from WWII?
The friends made along the way.

>>63989930
I mean the MG42 and MG3 is still in use as well

>>63989088
You don't have to tell me twice, ww2 westerns are /k/ino

>>63987945
Nah, Tommygun is a mafia thing first and foremost.

>>63986751 (OP)
The jeep, obviously.

>>63986751 (OP)
>What's the most famous piece of equipment from WWII?
i dont care what people say. it will always be The Kettenkrad to me

>>63989160
>Where metal reinforcements?
On the outside.

>>63989894
>>63991709
Whatever metal is on there doesn't help much against sabres. Nor does leather (just ask medieval armour threads about leather armour). All that talk about fending off sabre hits was a justification for burdening soldiers with cool-looking impractical hats.

>>63986751 (OP)
I would pick the "modern" conception of the tank in general with tracks, a turret and large caliber gun, most often represented by the sherman, t-34 and panzer 4

>>63989135
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>Pisses pants.
>Shits pants.
>Vomits.
>Cums pants.
>Bleeds from every orifice.
>Starts singing Zoroastrian chants.
>Dick falls off.
>Reattaches dick to head.
BECAUSE YOUR MOM DIDN'T LOVE ME ENOUGH!

>>63989002
Underrated

>>63986897
No country outside of America has any kind of public recognition for the garand. It's virtually unknown and even in America normies wouldn't think of it.

How come no one has mentioned this? Literally the most recognizable rocket design along with the saturn v and space shuttle.

>most famous equipment of WWI
Do trenches count as equipment? 90% of normies think WWI was nothing but them

>>63986751 (OP)
Varies from country to country. For the USA it might be a flying Fortress or a sherman tank, for the Japs it might be a Zero or the Yamato, while for us Brits. it's one of these.

>>63994494
i dont think most people will recognize it as a WW2 weapon
if anything they'll say its the rocket from Tintin

>>63994730
The potato masher is far more iconic, at least when talking about WW2. The pineapple is more iconic as the platonic idea of a grenade, but it's not tied to WW2.

>>63994535
If we're not talking country-specific stuff, I think most of the iconic weapons/equipment would be German. However, I think one rare exception would be the Spitfire, given that everyone's heard of it. It's like the German Tiger or, if I'm being lenient, maybe the America Jeep.

>>63988613
I think that's more of a fudd thing. As in, boomers with a tangential knowledge of weapons and WW2, but not the regular kind of normalfag.

>>63995181
>most of the iconic weapons/equipment would be German.
Probably, they had visually noticeably different equipment than the rest and all of it fell out of use after WW2 which makes it quintessential for that war.

>>63995418
It's not just that. Half of Europe was invaded and occupied by the Germans, so a lot of people lived through it, or more relevant today, a lot of people have family who lived through it. Much of the equipment was also adopted and used by the countries that had been occupied in the years following the war. There are also a shitload of movies where the Germans are the villains, and a lot of their equipment is extremely recognizable or gained an infamous reputation through American pop culture.
One another note, someone in my family who's still alive lived through the German occupation as a kid, and after the war grew up with American WW2 movies. When a US Navy ship came here a few years after the war, he was shocked at how short they were. Apparently, the American movies had given him the impression that Americans were all big, strong warriors, but they ended up being no taller, or even shorter than the local men.

>>63995195
I bet if you showed the average normie a picture of a 1911 and asked them to name what war it came from most of them would say WWII.

>>63995561
You could do that with most pistols made between the late 19th century and the mid 20th century. Hell, show them a Luger P08, and they'll be able to not only point out WW2, but what country it came from. They might even call it a Luger.

>>63986884

The idea of the spike was to deflect slashes from mounted troops' sabers, a very real threat when it was first issued.