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Unidentified Firearms

Screenshots added. Have at 'em. Note that most of the scenes featuring guns weren't actually shot in Italy or Sicily. So the "Italian" soldiers and cops are probably using American guns. - Kooshmeister

Various Guns

United States Marines (or what are supposed to be Marines, in-story) bail out of Calder's helicopter when it lands to capture the Ymir. They carry a multitude of weapons. The shot of them actually exiting the helicopter appears to be wartime stock footage.

A bazooka of some kind.

What appears to be a two-legged machine gun with legs folded.

Nice work Kooshmeister

But try to stem back the sarcastic commentary. We've gone on a crusade to excise IMFDB of all of that. Thanks. MoviePropMaster2008 19:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

I apologize, I just sometimes try and inject a little too much goofiness I guess. - Kooshmeister

Id'ing guns

If you take a look at the Band of Brothers page, that should help you id some of the rifles. --Ben41 00:39, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Uh, yeah. Thanks Ben41. I was flabbergasted at some of the confusion regarding some "cough" "cough" very well known firearms .. *cough!* but your suggestions keeps us from being tempted to make fun .... LOL! ;) MoviePropMaster2008 00:56, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry but most American WWII-era weapons look alike to me, especially the rifles which is what the majority of the stock footage soldiers are carrying above. Nevertheless, I'll take a look. - Kooshmeister

They all look alike? Are you kidding? ;) LOL! I hear the screams of the COD players echoing in the hallways. I don't know where you are from, but you must not be an American, I suppose. I understand non-Americans not knowing American weapons, especially classic ones! ;) MoviePropMaster2008 01:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I was born in Augusta, Georgia, although I spent my early childhood in Germany in Oberammergau due to my father being a NATO officer. I understand this could be taken to mean I should know about American guns due to my father being in the military, but whatever. - Kooshmeister

Not a bazooka

The weapon being used in the screen caps is not, I believe, a American bazooka but rather a German panzerschreck. The sheild is the most apparent give away. But in the third screen cap, a view from behind the gunner and the weapon, notice how the shoulder rest also looks like the type on the panzerschreck, and there is no bell shaped flange on the muzzle like the picture of the M9 bazooka has (but the panzerschreck does not). Harleyguy 03:45 26 April 2010

Panzerschreck 88mm with rocket

other long guns

While many of the Italian troops are carrying M1 Garands, some of the background Italian soldiers in the battle in the Roman ruins are carrying what appear to be Carcano 91/41 long rifles. --Carl N. Brown 23:40, 23 June 2012 (CDT)

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 ==Unidentified Firearms==
-'''Note:''' Screenshots to come. I'm merely laying the framework here for myself for future use while I take the screenshots. I'm also tackling ''It Came from Beneath the Sea'' and ''Earth vs. the Flying Saucers'' in the future. - [[User:Kooshmeister|Kooshmeister]]
+Screenshots added. Have at 'em. Note that most of the scenes featuring guns ''weren't'' actually shot in Italy or Sicily. So the "Italian" soldiers and cops are probably using American guns. - [[User:Kooshmeister|Kooshmeister]]
-===Farmer's Rifle/Shotgun===
-Confronting the Ymir in his barn, a Sicilian farmer grabs a double-barreled shotgun or rifle.
-[[Image:20million2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The farmer retrieves his gun from the barn wall..]]
-[[Image:20million3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Shotgun and lantern in hand, the farmer investigates things.]]
-[[Image:20million5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The farmer is joined by some unexpected allies as Calder and the police appear in his barn.]]
-===Police Guns===
-The local Sicilian police officers wield automatic rifles of some sort. During the confrontation with the Ymir in the farmer's barn, Colonel Calder ([[William Hopper]]) uses one of these.
-[[Image:20million9.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The thoroughly terrified-looking officer to the left brandishes his rifle.]]
-[[Image:20million10.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Calder grabs the rifle from the petrified officer and uses it against the beast himself.]]
-===Charra's Revolver===
-Sicilian Police Commissioner Charra ([[Tito Vuolo]]) uses a snub-nosed revolver.
-[[Image:20million6.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Charra points his revolver at the Ymir as one of his men tries to push it into a cage.]]
-[[Image:20million11.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Charra joins Calder in shooting at the alien as it attacks the farmer.]]
-[[Image:20million13.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Charra calls his flamethrower-wielding man up, revolver in hand.]]
-===Flamethrower===
-While hunting the Ymir in the countryside, one Sicilian police officer has a flamethrower.
-[[Image:20million14.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The flamethrower-wielding officer takes up his position as they sight the Ymir.]]
-[[Image:20million15.jpg|thumb|none|500px|In a subsequent shot, the policeman is inexplicably replaced with a totally different actor (probably a stuntman who actually knew how to use the weapon).]]
 ===Various Guns===
 United States Marines (or what are ''supposed'' to be Marines, in-story) bail out of Calder's helicopter when it lands to capture the Ymir. They carry a multitude of weapons. The shot of them actually exiting the helicopter appears to be wartime stock footage.
-[[Image:20million16.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Stock footage soldier #1 has a rifle of some sort.]]
-[[Image:20million17.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Ditto for stock footage soldier #2.]]
 [[Image:20million18.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A bazooka of some kind.]]
 [[Image:20million19.jpg|thumb|none|500px|What appears to be a two-legged machine gun with legs folded.]]
-[[Image:20million20.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Another rifle.]]
-[[Image:20million21.jpg|thumb|none|500px|The decidedly ''non''-stock footage soldier in back has a rifle slung over his shoulder.]]
-===Italian Army Rifles===
+==Nice work Kooshmeister==
-Rifles (automatic or bolt-action I cannot tell) wielded by the Italian soldiers who assist Calder in confronting the Ymir in Rome.
+But try to stem back the sarcastic commentary.  We've gone on a crusade to excise IMFDB of all of that.  Thanks.  [[User:MoviePropMaster2008|MoviePropMaster2008]] 19:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
-===Bazooka===
+:I apologize, I just sometimes try and inject a little too much goofiness I guess. - [[User:Kooshmeister|Kooshmeister]]
-Calder and a couple of Italian soldiers use large bazookas with face-shields.
-===Tank-Mounted Machine Gun===
+== Id'ing guns ==
-An Italian soldier on a tank fires at the Ymir with a large machine gun on his tank.
+If you take a look at the [[Band of Brothers]] page, that should help you id some of the rifles.  --[[User:Ben41|Ben41]] 00:39, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
+::Uh, yeah. Thanks Ben41.  I was flabbergasted at some of the confusion regarding some "cough" "cough" very well known firearms .. *cough!* but your suggestions keeps us from being tempted to make fun .... LOL! ;)  [[User:MoviePropMaster2008|MoviePropMaster2008]] 00:56, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
+:::Sorry but most American WWII-era weapons look alike to me, especially the rifles which is what the majority of the stock footage soldiers are carrying above. Nevertheless, I'll take a look. - [[User:Kooshmeister|Kooshmeister]]
+::::They all look alike?  Are you kidding? ;) LOL!  I hear the screams of the COD players echoing in the hallways.  I don't know where you are from, but you must not be an American, I suppose.  I understand non-Americans not knowing American weapons, especially classic ones! ;)  [[User:MoviePropMaster2008|MoviePropMaster2008]] 01:29, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
+:::::I was born in Augusta, Georgia, although I spent my early childhood in Germany in Oberammergau due to my father being a NATO officer. I understand this could be taken to mean I ''should'' know about American guns due to my father being in the military, but whatever. - [[User:Kooshmeister|Kooshmeister]]
+=== Not a bazooka ===
+The weapon being used in the screen caps is not, I believe, a American bazooka but rather a German panzerschreck. The sheild is the most apparent give away. But in the third screen cap, a view from behind the gunner and the weapon, notice how the shoulder rest also looks like the type on the panzerschreck, and there is no bell shaped flange on the muzzle like the picture of the M9 bazooka has (but the panzerschreck does not). [[User:Harleyguy|Harleyguy]] 03:45 26 April 2010
+[[Image:Tank h5.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Panzerschreck 88mm with rocket]]
+== other long guns ==
+While many of the Italian troops are carrying M1 Garands, some of the background Italian soldiers in the battle in the Roman ruins are carrying what appear to be Carcano 91/41 long rifles. --[[User:Carl N. Brown|Carl N. Brown]] 23:40, 23 June 2012 (CDT)