Artillery
8.8cm serving with user nations other than Germany
The 8.8cm FlaK 18s on parade in this photograph are believed to be part of the batch sold to Argentina in 1938. The tractors are either Pavesi or Fiat/Spa models. American gunners emplacing a suitably marked captured 8.8cm PaK 43 for use against its former owners. During the Second World War 88s served with several user nations other than Germany.…
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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…