It can rightly be said Germany is the Edenic home of modern sniping. It wasn’t long after the first trenches were dug during the Great War that German Scharfschutzen (Sharpshooters) began plying their trade. Initially they pressed optically sighted hunting rifles into service to make life hel...
7.7 cm (3.03 in) German leichte Feld Kanone (l.F.K.) 1896 n/a (light field cannon) Tank Hunter: World War One By Craig Moore The First World War’s fierce battles saw the need to develop military technology beyond anything previously imagined: as exposed infantry and cavalry were mowed...
By 1916 the Germans had pretty much abandoned the idea of pistol-caliber MGs in aircraft, but they were considered a viable concept as late as mid-1915. The sling would probably have been intended for attachment to a harness worn by the gunner to steady the gun in the slipstream. Just a...
Colonel-General Franz Halder of the Chief of Staff repeatedly visited Hitler with a pistol in his pocket to shoot the dictator, but Halder could not bring himself to do it.278 Georg Elser, a private citizen, set off a bomb at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, but Hitler finished his ...
Due to the inadequacy of half-tracks for recovering tanks and other armored vehicles—primarily because of their lack of armor and insufficient numbers—Germany sought alternative solutions. Starting in 1943, German forces began repurposing and refurbishing older tanks for such roles. These efforts ...
The small circle under the top of the cupola is a machine-pistol port (Maschinenpistole – Geschützluke). Source: Jentz and Doyle Layout of armor on the Krupp VK45.02(P2) Turm (the first 50 turrets for the Tiger Ausf.B). The fitting on the inside of the turret roof is the gun ...