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Weapons One of the most commonly used gun during juno beach was the Lee Enfield Rifle. They used this up until November 1942, but then they remodeled the gun in 1943 which was made in Canada. THe rifle is carried two 5-round clips of .303 ammunition. The Lee Enfield was the fastest operating bolt-action rifle in the world.

The next most common gun used in world war two was the vickers.303 machine gun. CAnadians used this machine gun in both world wars. The Vickers gun could be fired at high or low angles from the tripod. It operated on simple gas assisted recoil system they used water to cool the machine. The vickers gun was fed by 250 round cloths of ,303 ammunition and fired in full automatic bursts of 10 to 20 rounds. It could be fired 60 to 250 shots per minute.

Another gun used was the 5.5-inch gun / Howitzer. the Howitzer was used by the Canadians as a meduim artillery weapon. It fired an 82-pound high-explosive projectile up to 18,200 yards at two rounds a minute. It was operated by a ten man crew and was towed by a five -ton tractor know as a Matador

Another weapon used during World War 2 was a Grenade. A Grenade is a small simple bomb. It was used with great effect by the infantry in assaults on pillboxes, machine-gun nests and small groups of soldiers. Once the pin is removed from the grenade will blow up in about 4 to 5 seconds and explode into Shrapnel piece. The Grenade can either be thrown or fired from a rifle.

In World War 2 there was a tank called the crocodile. The Crocodile was a flame thrower tank. The flame thrower gun is mounted the same way a hull machine gun would be mounted. The flame thrower gun had the range of 120 yards.

The Bren Gun was a .303 calibre light machine gun with a 30 round magazine. The Bren Gun formed the basis of firepower of the infantry company. The Bren was employed one per infantry section of ten men Each section had a Bren group (four men) led by a lance corporal, one other rifleman, a Bren Gunner (Number One on the Bren) and his assistant (Number Two on the Bren). It was also used as a vehicle mounted weapon on Universal Carriers.