World War II Size Comparison

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🇺🇸 WW2 US SoldierUS Army Ranger, 1944. About 16 million Americans served in WWII. A rifleman carried roughly 25–35 kg of kit, and the M1 Garand he shouldered weighed 4.3 kg.
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🇺🇸 GBU-31 JDAM
🇺🇸 Little BoyDetonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. 15 kilotons from a gun-type design firing one piece of uranium-235 into another; only about 1.4% of its 64 kg of uranium actually fissioned. 4,400 kg. Around 140,000 people died by the end of that year.
🇺🇸 Fat ManDetonated over Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. 21 kilotons from a plutonium core crushed by 32 shaped charges firing within microseconds. 4,670 kg of bomb around just 6.2 kg of plutonium. Around 74,000 people died by the end of 1945.
🇷🇺 Tsar Bomba
🇩🇪 V-1 flying bombThe Fieseler Fi 103, launched from June 1944, was the first cruise missile: a 900 kg warhead on an 8.32 m airframe, flying at 640 km/h until a counter cut the engine. Germany fired more than 9,500 at London and 6,500 at Antwerp, and about 30,000 were built at roughly a hundredth the cost of a bomber sortie.
🇩🇪 V-2 rocketThe A4, better known as the V-2, was the first object to reach space — a 1944 test passed 176 km. It stood 14.03 m tall, weighed 12.5 t fuelled, and carried a 1 t warhead 320 km at 5,760 km/h. Over 3,000 were fired in combat, and more people died building it in the Mittelbau-Dora camps than were killed by it.