Artillery
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BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun in Italy, 1944 A British 4.5 inch gun in Normandy, 1944 WW II Radar Counter battery fire Counter battery fire most definitely was part of the WWII mortar crews concern hence the cover and protection. The allies had radar reserved specifically for this role. (First discovered by a bored 3.7 AA radar operator in Tunis watching…
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Berlin Flak Defences
Giant armored ammunition elevator vault beside 88mm gun and sweeping view of Berlin. The mainstay of the city’s defences, however, was its flak crews. By 1943, there were around 100 batteries in and around the capital, each containing searchlight units, radio telemetry, and on average, between 16 and 24 individual…
Flak-Turm
The Zoo flak tower Berliners had been repeatedly told that theirs was the best-defended city in the world. And, for once, Nazi propagandists were telling the unglossed truth: Berlin’s air defences really were state-of-the-art. The centrepiece of the hugely impressive network of defences in the city was the three Berlin…
War and Science -French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era.
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier The longstanding connection between war and science in the West intensified during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. Armed forces depended on scientific and technological expertise in many areas. Different service branches had different needs. One particularly marked by dependence on science was the artillery, since it was…
ISU ASSAULT GUNS INÂ ACTION
A Soviet GAZ-MM 4 x 2 cargo truck drives past a line of ISU-152 assault guns in Lvov, in the Ukraine, in July 1944. The photograph gives a good view of the chassis’ running gear, with KV-l’s spoked wheels rather than the disc wheels used on the T-34 and its…