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German Artillery in View

21cm howitzer, France, 1940.

50mm Leichter Granatenwerfer 36 mortar in action.

German 5cm Flugabwehrkanone 41.

50mm Leichter Granatenwerfer 36 mortar with ammunition box in action.

50mm Leichter Granatenwerfer 36 mortar with ammunition box in action.

50mm Leichter Granatenwerfer 36 mortar in action with Fallschirmjäger troops.

German 5cm Panzerabwehrkanone 38.

German 7.5cm Feldkanone 16 neuer Art.

German 7.5cm Leichtes Gebirgsgeschütz 36.

German 7.5cm Infanteriegeschütz 37.

German 7.5cm Leichtes Gebirgsgeschütz 18.

German 7.5cm Infanteriegeschütz 18.

German 7.5cm Leichtgeschütz 40.

German 7.5cm Leichtgeschütz 40 showing the sliding breech carrying the venturi. The wheels could be removed to convert the mounting into a simple tripod.

German 7.5cm Leichtgeschütz 40.

Nazi 75mm Paracannon Has No Kick". Wartime article.

German 7.5cm Panzerabwehrkanone 40.

Messerschmitt Me 323 "Gigant" with PaK 40 7.5cm anti-tank guns in the foreground.

7.5cm Pak 40 gun on the Eastern Front.

German 7.5cm Panzerabwehrkanone 97/38.

7.5 cm Pak 97/38 anti-tank gun based on a captured French Canon de 75 modèle 1897 captured by British forces in Tunisia in May 1943. The Pak 97/38 (7.5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 97/38 and 7.5 cm Panzerjägerkanone 97/38) was a German anti-tank gun used by the Wehrmacht in World War II. The gun was a combination of the barrel from the French Canon de 75 modèle 1897 fitted with a Swiss Solothurn muzzle brake and mounted on the carriage of the German 5 cm Pak 38 and could fire captured French and Polish ammunition.

German 76.2cm Panzerabwehrkanone 36(r).

81mm Schwerer Granatenwerfer 34 mortar in action as a round is fed into the barrel.

81mm Schwerer Granatenwerfer 34 mortar in action as the mortar fires.

81mm Schwerer Granatenwerfer 34 mortar in action as a round is fed into the barrel.

81mm Schwerer Granatenwerfer 34 mortars being prepared for action, Russian Front.

Mortar crew in action, Russia.

German 8.8cm Flugabwehrkanone 18.

German 8.8cm Flugabwehrkanone 36/37.

German 8.8cm Flugabwehrkanone 41.

German 88mm anti-tank gun.

German 88mm anti-tank gun.

88mm Flak 36 bearing the four leaf clover insignia of 19. Flak-Division captured by Australian troops in North Africa on November 3, 1942.

8.8cm multi-purpose gun Flak 41 in firing position.

8.8cm multi-purpose gun Flak 41 in traveling position.

88mm Flak being fired while still on its wheels in an anti-tank role, North Africa.

88mm anti-aircraft guns. These captured examples have been set up in Egypt (note the pyramid in the background) for testing.

American soldiers examine a German 88mm gun in Belgium.

8.8cm gun, near Dulman, Germany, March 1945.

8.8cm gun, Germany.

German 8.8cm Panzerabwehrkanone 43.

Destroyed PaK 43 (L/71) anti-tank gun, south of Caen, August 1944.

8.8cm PaK 43 anti-tank gun.

German 10cm Kanone 17.

German 10cm Kanone 18.

German 10.5cm Flugabwehrkanone 38.

German 10.5cm Gebirgshaubitze 40.

One of the few 10.5 cm Le FH 42 ever built.

German 10.5cm Leichte Feldhaubitze 18.

10.5cm field gun, Russia, late 1941.

10.5cm gun, Marigny, July 1944.

German 10.5cm Leichte Feldhaubitze 18/40.

German 10.5cm Leichte Feldhaubitze 18M.

German 10.5cm Leichtgeschütz 40/1.

German 10.5cm Leichtgeschütz 42/1.

German 12.8cm Flugabwehrkanone 40.

German 15cm Kanone 18.

German 15cm Kanone 39.

German 15cm Schwere Feldhaubitze 18.

15cm gun, Russia.

German 15cm Schwere Infanteriegeschütz 33.

German 15cm Nebelwerfer 41.

A German soldier keeps an eye out for Allied airplanes next to a well camouflaged Nebelwerfer rocket launcher.

Captured Nebelwerfer rocket artillery carriage, August 1944.

German 17cm Kanone 18.

German 21cm Kanone 39(t).

German 21cm Mörser 18.