This is more to do with the Berlin 1945 Mk Vs, but can anyone i.d. the gun in this picture? It might help to dispel the nonsense about the tanks having taken part in the fighting. Many thanks.
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Many thanks for the ID. I did recognize the Mörser, but not the Schneider howitzer, and certainly not the 13cm gun which I mistook for a Russian booty gun.
Thank you very much, citizens. Whilst I very much appreciate and am impressed by the responses, they haven't told me what I was hoping to hear: that these guns were all Russian and/or museum pieces, too old and obsolete to have been used in the fighting in 1945.
Maybe we can have a try with these, especially the recoilless piece on the left.
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Another gun from the first series of images. Beside the Mark V is a 10cm leFH 18 light howitzer - it isn't the later 18M and 18/40 variants because these
All suggestions very kind. The theory is that the lineup comprised weapons captured by the Germans in the Soviet Union. The Mk Vs, as we have discussed many times, came from Smolensk, but the artillery should be mostly Russian.
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The theory is that the lineup comprised weapons captured by the Germans in the Soviet Union. The Mk Vs, as we have discussed many times, came from Smolensk, but the artillery should be mostly Russian.
Given that they had scrapped church bells and what not at the time, I find it odd the Germans kept Russian booty guns exhibited in the center of Berlin.
Not that that regime was led by ratio, though. So your assumption might be correct, and I regret not being able to add any new facts to it. Regards, Pat
