Flak Batterie 'Melsungen'
Flak Batterie 'Melsungen'. 2./Ma.Fl.Abt.704.
Fu.MO 213 radar.
2cm Flak 28 Oerlikon.
Tobruk.
Lo361 'Melsungen' Flak site.
Now a camping site, there are lots of bits and pieces all over the field.
Camping Municipal Les Joncs.
Lo361 Gâvres Battery 'Melsungen'
USAAF B17 bombers attacking Lorient U-boat pens.
B17 Flying Fortress.
Waist gunner.
Radio operator.
StP Gâvres
StP Gâvres is made up of four Wn's, L0335 a battery of four casemates. Lo361 a Flak battery covering Lorient. Lo362 an old French fort and Lo112 a defence site for the town.
Lo361 Gâvres Battery 'Melsungen'
A 1950's air photo.
Lo361 Gâvres Battery 'Melsungen'
The Battery layout.
1 x Fl243b.
3 x Flakstellung.
3 x Vf58c.
2 x 2cm Flak 28.
1 x Fu.MO 213.
4 x 10.5cm S.K C/32.
Heavy flak.
Emergency.
Crew firing the gun.
Lo361 Gâvres Battery 'Melsungen'
Ringstand for a 10.5cm SK C/32 flak gun a gun one of four here and used a Fu.Mo 213 radar to direct them on target.
10.5cm SK C/32 flak gun.
Fu.Mo 213 an AA gunnery radar here to direct the 10.5cm AA guns with a range of 40-60Km range using 560MHz frequency.
A radar screen the type that may have been used here.
Lo361 Gâvres Battery 'Melsungen'
Flakstellung for a 10.5cm SK C/32 flak gun.
10.5cm SK C/32 flak gun showing the mounting just like the one above?
Lo361 Gâvres Battery 'Melsungen' 10.5cm S. K. C/32.
The type of gun that was used here. Designed as a ships gun and used extensively on most large ships to U-boats and flak ships..
Flak ship.
Ships main gun.
U-boat gun.
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