Ostende 2 x 8.8cm Battery map 06/06/1940
Re: Ostende 2 x 8.8cm Battery map 06/06/1940
Hello Dirk
On this list you see also the two 8.8 cm gun in Oostende , they must be W.W.1 Flak-gun from Krupp reused by the Belgium Army.
"einheimische" viewtopic.php?f=70&t=183586&hilit=krupp+flak
On this list you see also the two 8.8 cm gun in Oostende , they must be W.W.1 Flak-gun from Krupp reused by the Belgium Army.
"einheimische" viewtopic.php?f=70&t=183586&hilit=krupp+flak
Re: Ostende 2 x 8.8cm Battery map 06/06/1940
Jos,
I was under the impression that the Belgian 8.8 cm K-Flak had been relined to 75 mm. We had some discussions here:
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=90496&p=1695788
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=191939
Instead were any German 8.8 cm SK coastal guns handed over by the Germans to the Belgians after WW1? Or any German 8.8 cm SK coastal guns from Marine Korps Flandern left in position in good shape?
Emmanuel
I was under the impression that the Belgian 8.8 cm K-Flak had been relined to 75 mm. We had some discussions here:
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=90496&p=1695788
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=191939
Instead were any German 8.8 cm SK coastal guns handed over by the Germans to the Belgians after WW1? Or any German 8.8 cm SK coastal guns from Marine Korps Flandern left in position in good shape?
Emmanuel
Re: Ostende 2 x 8.8cm Battery map 06/06/1940
Hello Emmanuel
You are right, but in 1939 the Belgian Army used all weapons what they could find in stocks
like 17 cm S.K.l/40 , 12 cm de Bange , Maybe they were also 2 x 8.8 cm guns on stock because
two separate documents with the same information .
Regards Jos
You are right, but in 1939 the Belgian Army used all weapons what they could find in stocks
like 17 cm S.K.l/40 , 12 cm de Bange , Maybe they were also 2 x 8.8 cm guns on stock because
two separate documents with the same information .
Regards Jos
Re: Ostende 2 x 8.8cm Battery map 06/06/1940
These 8,8cm could also be leftovers from the scrapped Belgian navy. After WW! Belgium received 17 ex-German torpedo boats, 2 submarines and twenty minesweepers. Though these had the 8,8cm deck gun, the two U-boats never made it into Belgian service (see: http://www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.nl/v ... c4db4a410e). But I can imagine the torpedo boats and minesweepers had among them some arsenal, that may have included 8,8cms. The vessels were scrapped after about a decade of "service".
Re: Ostende 2 x 8.8cm Battery map 06/06/1940
Here you can find the fate of the coastal torpedo boats that had been interned in the NL and handed over under Versailles to Belgium. Several had 2 x 8,8cms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-class_torpedo_boat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-class_torpedo_boat
Re: Ostende 2 x 8.8cm Battery map 06/06/1940
Thanks Nuyt for your input
Re: Ostende 2 x 8.8cm Battery map 06/06/1940
Well, I hope it is of use, glad you appreciate it