Guest Airship Posted 9 February , 2005 Share Posted 9 February , 2005 Hi I have 2 photographs one of which is in postcard format and is a fieldpost for 1918? but i dont know what the vehicles are (one is a write off i suspect) thanks in advance Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Airship Posted 9 February , 2005 Share Posted 9 February , 2005 this is the wrecked vehicle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Airship Posted 9 February , 2005 Share Posted 9 February , 2005 and this is the backs of the two items i have stretched the contrast a bit to improve the readability upeer one is in indelible pencil the lower is writen with an ordinary pencil. (sorry about distorting the forum) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 9 February , 2005 Share Posted 9 February , 2005 The one above is a truck with an anti- aircraft gun mounted. The second one is a wreckage of a Schneider tank i think, that is a French heavy tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Airship Posted 9 February , 2005 Share Posted 9 February , 2005 That was quick! thanks bkristof. I thought it might be a mobile Anti aircraft gun but i wasnt sure it was just a mobile gun that had been elevated high just for the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 9 February , 2005 Share Posted 9 February , 2005 I even found more. I don't know the trucks used by the Germans. But the gun is probably a 80mm gun known as "Flak 102 Spezial". Let's say it is the mother of the famous WW2 88mm Flak gun. The gun was introduced in 1917. The tank is for 99% sure the French Scheinder tank. 13.5 tons (kg) 7 men 8km/h on front a bit iron piece called rhino horn, to cut trough barb wire 2 machine guns as weapons in some literature they say 4 mg's an one 75 mm gun, but i never saw a picture of that (they probably mixed up with the Saint Chaumont tank) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 9 February , 2005 Share Posted 9 February , 2005 Fritz Nagel wrote about his time with a mobile AA gun. Mostly pretty quiet but at one point he and his crew drove out from a village into the open and opened quick fire on Australian machine gunners in a house. Nagel was operating in support of a Marine Division near Amiens during Operation Michael. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 9 February , 2005 Share Posted 9 February , 2005 some literature they say 4 mg's an one 75 mm gun, but i never saw a picture of that Here is a picture of the short barrelled 75mm howitzer housed off to the right-hand side. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 9 February , 2005 Share Posted 9 February , 2005 http://www.landships.freeservers.com/jpegs...er_Saumur_3.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkristof Posted 10 February , 2005 Share Posted 10 February , 2005 thanks robert! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Airship Posted 10 February , 2005 Share Posted 10 February , 2005 Thanks Robert and bkristof for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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