WW2 Pistols
As in every recent war prior to World War 2, the pistol proved the last line of defense for its various combatants.
1927
The Ballester-Molina is nothing more than an Argentine locally-produced copy of the successful American Colt M1911 series of ...
1935
The Browning High-Power (or Fabrique Nationale FN GP35 - "GP" for "Grande Puissance") has a lineage dating back to the origin...
1903
The Fabrique Nationale FN Model 1903 was a solid, well-traveled pistol used in both World Wars. The gun was produced to the t...
1910
The Model 1910 was another successful John Browning firearms design that was initially produced by the Belgian firm of Fabriq...
1922
In 1923, the Yugoslavian authorities contracted the Belgian concern of Fabrique Nationale to develop a semi-automatic pistol ...
1911
The Colt model M1911 series of pistols is one of the most successful small arms designs of the 20th Century - and in all of w...
1903
The Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless (or M1903) was a semi-automatic pistol from the long line of firearms developed by fabl...
1917
When the Americans formally entered World War 1 in 1917, they lacked much in the way of viable fighting equipment and this in...
1942
Origins of the FP-45 single-shot pistol place it as an initiative by the US Army, intending to arm clandestine and resistance...
1908
The German P08 pistol (or "Pistole 1928" or "P'08" or "Luger") was one of the more famous German-based pistol designs of the ...
1896
One of the most recognizable early-form semi-automatic pistols became the Mauser C96 series. The C96 shape was classic with i...
1927
Like the standard-issue rifles of the Imperial Japanese Army during the 1920s, the pistols of the IJA were equally outdated f...
1910
The Italian Army took on the Model 1910 Glisenti in an attempt to field a semi-automatic pistol to replace their aged "Bodeo"...
1938
The Polish wz.35 pistol was one of the finest semi-automatic handguns of her era, appearing just shortly before the German in...
1907
The Roth-Steyr M07 (or "Model 07") holds the distinction of becoming the first self-loading pistol to be accepted by a major ...
1930
The Tokarev TT-30 was a semi-automatic pistol, essentially a Soviet copy of a Browning-Colt design, intended to replace the N...
1933
The T-33 was a further development of the TT-30 pistol series which, itself, was based on the designs of famed American gunsm...
1938
The Walther P38 (Pistole 38) handgun was designed as a replacement for the well received P 08. The design of the newer P38 wa...
1939
The Welrod was designed in the early part of World War 2 after a very short development period by the British War Office. The...
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