Cnock Posted 10 February , 2006 Share Posted 10 February , 2006 Heist - Battery FREYA 4 x 21 cm In the rear : skyline Heist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 10 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2006 HEIST - BATTERY FREYA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 10 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2006 Heist - January 1918 German Marine artillerists in feldgrau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 10 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2006 Heist, towards Duinbergen Battery AUGUSTA , 3 x 15 cm on concrete platforms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 10 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2006 HEIST - BATTERY AUGUSTA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 10 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2006 Heist - Battery Augusta Regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btt. Deutschland Posted 10 February , 2006 Share Posted 10 February , 2006 wow Cnock, these are some superb fotos!!! on a lot of postcards it says 'batterie freya-augusta' , why did they write that? was it because the batteries were very close to each other, or did it have another reason??? regards, wouter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 10 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 10 February , 2006 Wouter, Frey-Augusta I think they did this after the war because the batteries were close one to another. On post nr.4 (Augusta)You will see that for help of the gunners, the distances and directions to several land and sea marks are written on the back of the wall. for example : lighthouse mole Zeebrugge A58 ( German torpedoboat sunk in the harbour) steamer Frigg Crane Vlissingen. Regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 10 February , 2006 Share Posted 10 February , 2006 Cnock, dank je wel Malte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btt. Deutschland Posted 10 February , 2006 Share Posted 10 February , 2006 Ok thanks Cnock, I couldn't read it at first... thanks for this great info!! grtz wouter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Dunlop Posted 11 February , 2006 Share Posted 11 February , 2006 On post nr.4 (Augusta)You will see that for help of the gunners, the distances and directions to several land and sea marks are written on the back of the wall. Cnock, thank you for this information. It is very interesting. On the other side, the British laid buoys in the water off the Belgian coast. These were designed to provide directional markers for the guns of the monitors. They did not have the ranging information though. I know that the MarinesKorps Flandern artillery relied heavily on the air observers too. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 11 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 11 February , 2006 Robert, Thank You for You reply. Battery Augusta had a mediocre range of firing, and didn't need to register the guns with aeroplanes. It was certainly in action in 1915, when British torpedoboats still dared to come close to the coast. When the British monitors shelled the Belgian coast, they also used aerial observation. Regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 11 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 11 February , 2006 Robert, Thank You for You reply. Battery Augusta had a mediocre range of firing, and didn't need to register the guns with aeroplanes. It was certainly in action in 1915, when British torpedoboats still dared to come close to the coast. When the British monitors shelled the Belgian coast, they also used aerial observation. Regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btt. Deutschland Posted 12 February , 2006 Share Posted 12 February , 2006 Robert & Cnock, thank you for this extra information! Regards, wouter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malte Znaniecki Posted 3 March , 2006 Share Posted 3 March , 2006 Map 1 Location: Belgian coast Subject: Space of time: March 1915 Source: to be posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dycer Posted 3 March , 2006 Share Posted 3 March , 2006 Cnock, Excuse the sidetrack but you had me wondering for a second when I read Heist. You may have read about a recent Bank "heist" in UK when 53 Million Pounds were stolen. You are certain paper money was not used as ammunition? Sorry again,it is Friday afternoon George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 3 March , 2006 Author Share Posted 3 March , 2006 George, I am aware that the Germans suffered a shortage of brass and other metals, but not in that way that they would use paper money as munition. ( they safed the paper money for after the war, to make piles of paper money during the inflation) Some thirty years ago there was an american movie about a bank robbery, called 'The Heist'. Best regards, Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dycer Posted 3 March , 2006 Share Posted 3 March , 2006 George, I am aware that the Germans suffered a shortage of brass and other metals, but not in that way that they would use paper money as munition. ( they safed the paper money for after the war, to make piles of paper money during the inflation) Some thirty years ago there was an american movie about a bank robbery, called 'The Heist'. Best regards, Cnock Cnock, The Weimar Republic, as I recall from my School History days, when People were paid by wheel barrow loads of worthless money. Unfortunately we all know what this unhappy history contributed to. I'm sure,though,some Holywood Mogul will want to make a film about the current Bank Heist.A Fiction writer could not have dreamed up such a good storyline. Again apologies for high-jacking the Thread. Have a good weekend. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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