by Colin Downes
United States Marine Corps
1st Marine Division
V-1 flying bomb
launch sites
V-2 rocket
launch sites
Verrinder, Carl
Vickers Valiant
Vickers Warwick
Vickers Wellington
Vienna
Sacher Hotel
Viet Cong
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Vincent, AVM Stanley, DFC
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene
Voltaire
WAAFs
Wake Island
Washington, DC
Waterloo, Battle of
weapons see also ‘GUNVAL’ gun evaluation trials; tanks, early; V-1 flying bomb; V-2 rocket
anti-tank rifle, Mauser.75 mm
bombs
12,000 lb ‘Block Buster’
22,000 lb ‘Grand Slam’
atomic
napalm
cannon
20 mm
23 mm
30 mm
37 mm
Adenmm
Hispanomm
M-39mm
grenade, Mills
machine-guns
Browning.303 in
Browning.5 in
Browning.7 mm
M-3.5 in
missiles
A-4
Firestreak infra-red air-to-air
Red Top infra-red guided
Sidewinder infra-red guided
Sparrow radar guided
Molins gun, 57 mm
mortar, Stokesin
pistol, Browningmm automatic
revolver, Smith and Wesson.32
rifle, Jeffery
rifle, Lee-Enfield
rifle, Mauser
rocket projectiles, 3 in free-flight
rockets, anti-aircraft
tanks, early
Weighill, Flight Lieutenant Bob
Weizman, General Ezer
Wellington, Duke of
West, Arthur Graeme
West, Major General Mike
West Irian
Westmoreland, General
Westward Ho!
Wharfe, River
White City Gang
Whitley Bay
Wickham, Wing Commander Peter, DSO DFC
Williams, Ted
Woodbury, Woody
Yalu River
Yeager, Chuck
Yellow Sea
Yin-Yang school of Chinese philosophers
Yokohama
Yom Kippur War
Yorkshire Dales
Young, Edward
Ypres, Second Offensive
Ypres, Third Offensive
Zealots