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3.7 Flak 18/36/37

Author : Alan Ranger
Publisher : Camera on
ISBN 13 : 9788365958556
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book 3.7 Flak 18/36/37 written by Alan Ranger and published by Camera on. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new photo album is number 20 in the MMPBooks/Stratus "Camera On" series and is the first to cover an anti-aircraft weapon alone and whilst there have been a few books covering medium German 37mm Flak weapons before the 37 mm Flak 18/36/37 has never been covered in such photographic depth, this truly historically significant weapon along with the other German 37 mm weapons it evolved into are illustrated in this book that contains 160+ photographs. Nearly all of the photos being from the authors collection that were originally taken by ordinary German soldiers not professional propagandists. In this volume we endeavour to show this rarely illustrated equipment in detail but still show it as the soldiers viewed it as both their work place and in some cases also their home, not the highly posed and polished views of the official photographers.This book is an invaluable reference for military historians and modellers alike.

World War Ii Anti-Aircraft Guns

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230490373
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book World War Ii Anti-Aircraft Guns written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Bofors 40 mm, 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37/41, QF 3 inch 20 cwt, QF 2 pounder naval gun, Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, QF 4.5 inch Mk I - V naval gun, QF 3.7 inch AA gun, 2 cm FlaK 30/38/Flakvierling, 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939, Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun, 3"/50 caliber gun, 7,62 ITKK 31 VKT, 90 mm Gun M1/M2/M3, 20 ITK 40 VKT, 3.7 cm FlaK 43, 37mm Gun M1, Breda Model 35, Type 88 75 mm AA Gun, QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun, Type 5 15 cm AA Gun, 45 mm anti-aircraft gun, 85 mm air defense gun M1939, 7.5 cm L/45 M/16 anti aircraft gun, 7.5 cm L/45 M/32 anti aircraft gun, Gyro Rate Unit, 3.7 cm SK C/30, 120 mm M1 gun, 3"/70 Mark 26 gun, Type 14 10 cm AA Gun, Polsten, Type 3 12 cm AA Gun, 4.7 inch QF Mark XII, 1.1"/75 caliber gun, M45 Quadmount, 12.8 cm FlaK 40, Pom-Pom Director, 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun, 13.2 mm Hotchkiss machine gun, Type 99 88 mm AA Gun, Type 4 75 mm AA Gun, Vickers Model 1931, Type 11 75 mm AA Gun, 7.5 cm kanon PL vz. 37, 10.5 cm FlaK 38, 5 cm FlaK 41, 8.35 cm PL kanon vz. 22, Type 98 20 mm AA Machine Cannon, Cannone da 90/53, 25 mm automatic air defense gun M1940, Cannone-Mitragliera da 20/77, QF 4.7 inch Mark XI gun, 9 cm kanon PL vz. 12/20, Type 3 80 mm AA Gun, 8 cm PL kanon vz. 37, Gebirgsflak 38, Canon anti-aerien de 75mm modele 1939, Madsen 20 mm anti-aircraft cannon, AA Mine Discharger, Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34, Solothurn ST-5, Type 2 20 mm AA Machine Cannon, Type 4 20 mm Twin AA Machine Cannon.

Dreaded Threat

Author : Thomas L. Jentz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970840707
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Dreaded Threat written by Thomas L. Jentz and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

German Naval Guns

Author : Mirosław Zbigniew Skwiot
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591143116
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis German Naval Guns by : Mirosław Zbigniew Skwiot

Download or read book German Naval Guns written by Mirosław Zbigniew Skwiot and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the huge 15-inch guns carried by the Bismarck to the smallest machine gun used by coastal forces, this comprehensive encyclopedia covers every German artillery piece mounted afloat during World War II. All marks and variations of these weapons are described individually, including their mountings and the ammunition fired, along with extensive tabular data. The feature that makes this book unique, however, is the range and detail of the illustrations, including close-up photos, three-view drawings, and computer-generated full-color representations of the guns from every angle, making this the most complete reference available.

Flak 88 Owners' Workshop Manual

Author : Chris McNab
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9781785211331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Flak 88 Owners' Workshop Manual written by Chris McNab and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 8.8cm Flugzeugabwehrkanone 18/36/37/41 - more popularly known as the ‘Flak 88’ - was one of the most successful and influential artillery gun types in the German arsenal in the Second World War. Developed during the 1920s and 1930s, the gun combined accuracy, a high muzzle velocity and a rapid rate of fire (15–20rpm). Although at first developed as an anti-aircraft gun, it went on to achieve equal repute as an anti-tank weapon, imposing horrific casualties on Allied armor across all major European and North African theaters of war. In one clash in Normandy, in June 1944, for example, a single Luftwaffe 8.8cm battery destroyed some 40 Allied tanks.

Handbook on German Military Forces

Author : Bob Carruthers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781592152
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on German Military Forces written by Bob Carruthers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook On German Military Forces is an indispensable primary reference source for historians and enthusiasts. In 1945 the Allies were still engaged in bitter fighting against stiff resistance from the German armies in the west. The US War Department was determined to do its best to equip the US forces fighting the Germans in the field with as much knowledge as possible. March 1945 saw the issue of an astonishing document entitled the Handbook On German Military Forces. This was a truly remarkable work of intelligence gathering which formed a vast compendium of all the relevant knowledge amassed on the German Wehrmacht.??Amazingly accurate and comprehensive, the Handbook ran to over six hundred pages and was designed to equip commanders in the field with everything they were likely to need to know about the German forces. The Handbook remained classified until 1953 and then slipped into obscurity.??This new paperback reprint rescues this great work from obscurity, covering the psychology, organisation, tactics and operational aspects of the German forces. The weapons, machines, aircraft and uniforms of the German forces are also documented within the Handbook.??The Handbook On German Military Forces is a fascinating primary reference source for historians and enthusiasts alike, providing an invaluable insight into the detail of the German Army which is still an unrivaled source of information today.

Flak

Author : Edward B. Westermann
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700614206
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Flak written by Edward B. Westermann and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2001-11-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-aircraft units duel in the thundering darkness. Such "cinematic" scenes, played out with increasing frequency as World War II ground to a close, were more than mere stock material for movie melodramas. As Edward Westermann reveals, they point to a key but largely unappreciated aspect of the German war effort that has yet to get its full due. Long the neglected stepchild in studies of World War II air campaigns, German flak or anti-aircraft units have been frequently dismissed by American, British, and German historians (and by veterans of the European air war) as ineffective weapons that wasted valuable material and personnel resources desperately needed elsewhere by the Third Reich. Westermann emphatically disagrees with that view and makes a convincing case for the significant contributions made by the entire range of German anti-aircraft defenses. During the Allied air campaigns against the Third Reich, well over a million tons of bombs were dropped upon the German homeland, killing nearly 300,000 civilians, wounding another 780,000, and destroying more than 3,500,000 industrial and residential structures. Not surprisingly, that aerial Armageddon has inspired countless studies of both the victorious Allied bombing offensive and the ultimately doomed Luftwaffe defense of its own skies. By contrast, flak units have virtually been ignored, despite the fact that they employed more than a million men and women, were responsible for more than half of all Allied aircraft losses, forced Allied bombers to fly far above high-accuracy altitudes, and thus allowed Germany to hold out far longer than it might have otherwise. Westermann's definitive study sheds new light on every facet of the development and organization of this vital defense arm, including its artillery, radar, searchlight, barrage balloon, decoy sites, and command components. Highlighting the convergence of technology, strategy, doctrine, politics, and economics, Flak also provides revealing insights into German strategic thought, Hitler's obsession with micromanaging the war, and the lives of the members of the flak units themselves, including the large number of women, factory workers, and even POWs who participated.

88 mm FlaK 18/36/37/41 and PaK 43 1936–45

Author : John Norris
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841763415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book 88 mm FlaK 18/36/37/41 and PaK 43 1936–45 written by John Norris and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German 88 mm was by far the most famous and versatile artillery weapon of World War II. It was first used as an anti-aircraft weapon by the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and saw further service in the German invasions of Poland and France, where it was first used in its anti-tank role. This role was particularly successful and the 88 became feared by tank crews from North Africa to Russia. Apart from these two main roles the 88 mm was used as the main weapon on late-war German tanks, as a self-propelled gun, and even as an aerial weapon. This book covers all these variants, explaining their design, development and operational use.

Acht 8 cm Flak 18/36/37

Author : Artur Winiarski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Acht 8 cm Flak 18/36/37 written by Artur Winiarski and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defenses

Author : Jonathan Bernstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472846303
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Book Synopsis P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defenses by : Jonathan Bernstein

Download or read book P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defenses written by Jonathan Bernstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of World War 2, the tactical air war over Europe has been largely overlooked by historians and authors alike in favour of analysis of the higher profile strategic bombing campaign. Involving just as many aircraft as the daylight heavy bombing campaign, the fighter-bombers (principally of the Ninth Air Force) wreaked considerably more havoc on German ground forces. Indeed, Thunderbolt units undertaking such missions effectively complemented the strategic campaign, ensuring the defeat of Nazi Germany. P-47 pilots paid a high price to achieve this victory, however, as the German flak arm was well equipped (nearly a quarter of all war-related production was devoted to anti-aircraft weaponry) with weapons of various calibres to counter tactical air power's low to medium altitude threat. The USAAF four numbered air forces that saw action over the European continent suffered significant fighter-bomber losses to flak. The principle fighter-bomber from the summer of 1944 through to VE Day was the P-47D, with both dedicated ground attack units and squadrons that had completed their bomber escort tasking seeking out targets of opportunity across occupied Western Europe. While heavy-calibre anti-aircraft fire was intended to both shoot down enemy aircraft and force bombers to drop their ordnance sooner or from higher altitudes, thus reducing bombing accuracy, low-altitude flak batteries put up a virtual 'wall of steel' for enemy fighter-bombers to fly through. Damaging a low-flying fighter-bomber made it easier for other flak gunners to track, engage and destroy it. Innovations like lead-computing gunsights gave gunners a higher probability of intercepting low-altitude fighters. Conversely, the appearance of air-to-ground rockets beneath the wings of P-47s gave pilots better standoff range and a harder-hitting punch when dealing with low and medium altitude flak units. This volume analyses the tactics and techniques used by both P-47 fighter-bomber pilots and German flak gunners, featuring full-colour illustrations to examine the Allied tactical air power in Europe from 1943 and how German defences were overpowered by the air threat.

SdKfz 251 Half-Track 1939–45

Author : Bruce Culver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782001387
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book SdKfz 251 Half-Track 1939–45 written by Bruce Culver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the best traditions of German ingenuity in design and construction of armoured vehicles, the SdKfz 251 firmly realised the concept of a competent cross-country tactical vehicle for armoured infantry units. So successful was this half-track that not only did a modified version of it remain in use with Czech forces well into the 1980s but also, ironically, the armoured infantry tactics that the Germans pioneered with it were adopted by Allied forces in the Second World War and helped them to achieve the eventual defeat of Germany. This book covers the genesis and development of the SdKfz 251, and details the numerous modifications and variations that sprang from combat experience.

Handbook on German Military Forces

Author :
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807140710
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on German Military Forces written by and published by LSU Press. This book was released on with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the U.S. Army during World War II as an manual for its officers in the Pacific, this handbook exhaustively details Japan's wartime military system, field organization, tactics, weapons and equipment, uniforms, and more. Reprint. UP.

German Flak Defences vs Allied Heavy Bombers

Author : Donald Nijboer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472836707
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book German Flak Defences vs Allied Heavy Bombers written by Donald Nijboer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of World War II, the strategic bombing of Germany has inspired numerous studies, countless books and several documentary films, and it is not surprising. With more than one million tons of bombs dropped, close to 300,000 civilians killed, 700,000 wounded and in excess of 3,500,000 industrial and residential structures destroyed, the Allied bomber offensive was industrial war on a grand scale. The air battle that raged over Germany has often been described as a battle between Allied and German fighters but what has been frequently missed by historians on all sides is the impact of German anti-aircraft defences (flak). Though often dismissed as ineffective and a waste of valuable material and personnel, the German flak arm made a major contribution to the defence of the Third Reich – at least half of the American aircraft shot down over Germany fell to flak, and according to the RAF Official History, it was estimated that flak accounted for 1229 of 3302 aircraft lost by Bomber Command between 1942 and April 1945. Additionally, the strategic role of flak extended beyond simply shooting down aircraft – its other, more important task was to force bombers to drop their ordnance sooner or from a higher altitude, thus reducing bombing accuracy. Both these roles are explored in depth in this detailed study of the German flak defences and of their adversaries, the Allied heavy bombers. Containing full-colour illustrations including cockpit scenes and armament views, this is the definitive guide to the much-overlooked conflict between Allied planes and German anti-aircraft defences.

Armoured Firepower

Author : Peter Gudgin
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armoured Firepower written by Peter Gudgin and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts the development of armored fighting vehicle weaponry during the WWII period by the major tank-producing combatants: Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and the US. Covers armored cars and self-propelled artillery as well as tank armament, and explains functions of tank armament, components of the armament systems, and their uses. Details main developments through the war years, in chapters devoted to individual countries, focusing on main and auxiliary armament, sighting and fire-control systems, ammunition, and fighting arrangements. Includes appendices of comparative data, and bandw photos and illustrations. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

German 88

Author : Terry Gander
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848840403
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book German 88 written by Terry Gander and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German 88 mm guns became the most famous and feared artillery pieces of the Second World War. They appeared in a whole series of forms ranging from anti-aircraft to anti-tank and tank-guns, including several self-propelled platforms. Although primarily anti-aircraft guns they gained an awesome reputation as anti-tank weapons, a reputation that remains to this day. Terry Gander, in this in-depth, highly illustrated study, tells the story of the 88 from its first manifestations during the Great War to its clandestine development in Sweden, its production in Germany, its first 'multi-role' initiation during the Spanish Civil War and its part in the campaigns of 1939-40. As well as a detailed technical description of the gun and its development, his book features vivid accounts of the 88 in action in many of the main theaters of the Second World War, in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany, and on the Eastern Front.

ARCHIE, FLAK, AAA, And SAM: A Short Operational History Of Ground-Based Air Defense [Illustrated Edition]

Author : Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786253712
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book ARCHIE, FLAK, AAA, And SAM: A Short Operational History Of Ground-Based Air Defense [Illustrated Edition] written by Dr. Kenneth P. Werrell and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes over 90 illustrations ‘Dr Kenneth Werrell’s history of ground-based air defense performs an important service both to scholarship and, more important, to the defense of our nation’s freedom. It is perhaps human nature that we tend over time to lose sight of the lessons of the past, especially when they do not conform to certain cherished preconceptions of ours. That such myopia can be dangerous, if not downright disastrous, Doctor Werrell’s study richly illustrates. Without sentimentalism, he chronicles a pattern of lessons learned and too quickly forgotten, as the marvel of air power was reminded again and again of its limitations and vulnerability. In Korea and in Vietnam, the American people were stripped of their illusions of national and technical omnipotence. The unhappy outcome of those two conflicts were doubly lamentable because the lessons of World War II were—or should have been—fresh in our minds. In that world war, as Doctor Werrell shows, relatively cheap ground-based air defense did make a difference: at Ploesti, at Antwerp, and at the Rhine bridges.

World War Ii German Anti-Tank Guns

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230520742
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book World War Ii German Anti-Tank Guns written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: 12.8 cm Pak 44, 2.8 cm sPzB 41, 3.7 cm Pak 36, 4.2 cm Pak 41, 5 cm Pak 38, 7.5 cm PaK 39, 7.5 cm Pak 40, 7.5 cm Pak 41, 7.5 cm Pak 97/38, 7.62 cm Pak 36(r), 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41, 8.8 cm Pak 43, 8 cm PAW 600, Panzerwurfkanone 10H64. Excerpt: The 88 mm gun (eighty-eight) was a German anti-aircraft and anti-tank artillery gun from World War II. It was widely used by Germany throughout the war, and was one of the most recognized German weapons of the war. Development of the original models led to a wide variety of guns. The name applies to a series of guns, the first one officially called the 8.8 cm Flak 18, the improved 8.8 cm Flak 36, and later the 8.8 cm Flak 37. Flak is a contraction of German Flugzeugabwehrkanone meaning "aircraft-defensive cannon," the original purpose of the eighty-eight. In informal German use, the guns were universally known as the Acht-acht ("eight-eight"), a contraction of Acht-komma-acht Zentimeter ("8.8 cm"). In English, "flak" became a generic term for ground anti-aircraft fire. The versatile carriage allowed the eighty-eight to be fired in a limited anti-tank mode when still on wheels, and to be completely emplaced in only two-and-a-half minutes. Its successful use as an improvised anti-tank gun led to the development of a tank gun based upon it. These related guns served as the main armament of tanks such as the Tiger I: the 8.8 cm KwK 36, with the "KwK" abbreviation standing for KampfwagenKanone ("Battletank Cannon"). In addition to these Krupp designs, Rheinmetall later created a more powerful anti-aircraft gun, the 8.8 cm Flak 41, which was produced in relatively small numbers. Krupp responded with another prototype of the long-barreled 88 mm gun, which was further developed into the anti-tank and tank destroyer 8.8 cm Pak 43 gun, and turret-mounted 8.8 cm KwK 43 heavy tank gun....