Ground anchors for heavy guns

[jopaerya]

Hello

On some picture's I found , the groundplate for the 21 cm M 18 was fixed to ground anchors ,
does somebody know how many ground anchors one gun had and was it also used on the
17 cm K.18 in Mörserlafette ?

Photo's = Ebay

Regards Jos

[M19 MADMAL]

Hi Jos,

The 21 cm M 18 on Jersey always had 4 of these ground anchors and were arranged in a cross around the gun pivot.As the gun was permanently emplaced they were secured directly to the pivot plate and a bar (disconnected and folded back in the photo) was also deployed to aid in securing the anchor plates to the ground plate.
You can see the partly exposed recesses for them in the concrete emplacement.

I have seen one of these ground anchors (without the driving spike) which comes from a Jersey 21cm M 18 in a local collection Sorry no photo of it

The photo shows one of the guns of Batterie Mackensen (in St. Martin, Jersey) after liberation being prepared for moving across the Island to be thrown over the cliffs at Las Landes.

Regards,
Malcolm

[jopaerya]

Thank you Malcolm

Some of the 21 cm M 18 batterie's in Norway used the same method .
http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archive ... h[focus]=1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/farinihous ... otostream/

And a other Ebay picture with a anchor .

Regards Jos

[Clive Mortimore]

Hi Jos

I have not found a photo of a 17 cm K 18 with the ground anchors, but now you have pointed them out I see the wires leading to them in the photos of 21cm Mrs. I have found this drawing of a 15cm s K C/28 in Morserlafette in Waffen Arnsenal S-77 Schwere Artillerie showing the wires in front of the gun.

[jopaerya]

Thanks Clive

So far I have only seen 21 cm M 18 with the anchors , but the 17 cm K 18 used the same Mörserlafette as the M 18 .

Regards Jos

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

The 17cm K18 gun used the same ground anchors than the 21cm Mrs 18 howitzer.
In the book "German heavy mortars" Pag.9 of Joachim Engelmann there is a image of a 17cm K18 gun using the ground anchors.

Regards Sturm78

[jopaerya]

Thanks Sturm78

Sounds logic the same lafette , so we have the

21 cm Mörser 18
17 cm Kanone 18 in Mörserlafette
15 cm S.K.C/28 in Mörserlafette

Regards Jos

[jopaerya]

Hello All

I found a page with the 15 cm K. in Mrs.Laf. , a lot of book are talking about the 15 cm S.K.C/28 in Mörserlafette .
Does somebody know any original information on the 15 cm S.K.C./28 in Mörserlafette ??

I know the 15 cm S.K.C/28M in mot L.C/38 .

Regards Jos

[Sturm78]

Hi Jopaerya,

See http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... t=15cm+K18

Sturm78

[jopaerya]

Hi Sturm78

I know the photo's in the books , but I can't find any original information .

Regards Jos

[stril]

Picture from ebay, added to a album to get more buyers, and it worked
Nice picture..
regards
stril

[Andrzej Ditrich]

Another example from BAKO:

Brgds
@ndrew

[jopaerya]

Thanks @ndrew

Found this on internet 15 cm Kanone in Mörserlafette and naval name 15 cm S.K.C/28 .
Also one 15 cm S.K.C/28 gun was lost in the early days (1941) of Operation Barbarossa .

Regards Jos

[Andrzej Ditrich]

Some other photos with anchors:

Brgds
@ndrew

[Andrzej Ditrich]

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