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Hello Chris, glad to read you, anyone with reliable news about ahf? hacked? server down overall?

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Xavier

I remember the closing of one of the last posts...

we were roasting a goat on the after deck of U-booty, on our last leg of the trip home, I think, IIRC, Biscay bay, when we suddenly saw.......the northern lights!! and they were taken as an omen of good things to come.......

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Xavier

sorry, wrong gun (my mistake) I have seen this gun transported in two pieces, with the barrel carried ina special transport, and the craddle/ in a separate position, and I think it has some kind of screw jacks in the plate at the end of the legs. ADDENDUM: PHOTOS: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de...

those were the "Feifel" tropical filters, originally for tigers sent to africa

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Xavier

regarding your second question, the gun was driven on top of the tracks, then two multiaxle boogies aproached the gun from both ends and lowered a couple arms each, that in turn had a couple hydraulic jacks each. the ends of these arms were hooked to the gun, and then the jacks extended under them u...

wrong post, please delete

"hit' em as hard as you can from as far as you can"...a .50 cal single shot or bolt action rifle is just the weapon for the job, regardless of maker.

flat trajectory and an assortment of ammo

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Xavier

they could be moved in a special transporter that loads at ground level, towing is out of the question since most of the times the tracks are frozen/rusted, toload, a speciul gantry is assembled around the tanks and then its lifted so the loader can go under it., or jsut use a big crane... :D from m...

talk about a long forgotten post: Mon Oct 14, 2002
well, last night, before departing on a long trip, I took a long & deep look at senich's book, : no mention of actual use.

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Xavier

check here, links to some websites are given in the captions of some photos

http://community.webshots.com/album/136092079zuDZQo

http://community.webshots.com/album/180671134sTpijT

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Xavier

and here, 83 photos on chronological order :

http://community.webshots.com/album/338373567tFqDcx

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Xavier

work of reference, collected from several sites, inspired by a thread in the axis forum: feel free to add here:

pt I http://community.webshots.com/album/146901125YPcbZZ

Pt II http://community.webshots.com/album/164083005bLBknP

best regards

Xavier

Must be the home barracks farewell ceremony in germany before departing for italy/north afrika

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Xavier

my german graves/ceremonies photopages:

http://community.webshots.com/album/136092079zuDZQo
http://community.webshots.com/album/180671134sTpijT

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Xavier

only the Americans were rich enough to be able to afford wasting a rifle by sticking it into the ground to mark a grave Russians ditto.......... but only because most germans considered the M-Nagant a second rate rifle, on the other hand, any german landser would glady exchange his K98k for a ppsh....