This is my last post of the tank museum in Munster. I have still more pictures, but I think this should suffice now.
This is the 8,8 cm Flak "Acht-acht" anti-aircraft gun.
The 8,8 cm was not only a anti-aircraft gun, this famous weapon had also success as a antitank gun.
My grandfather has destroyed with the 8,8 two airplanes and several Russian T-34 tanks. My grandfather serve at the west front until the bullet of a Frenchman pierced his shoulder.
At the eastern front he was very heavily wounded, a toe was torn off and a rifle bullet was in his lung.
Because he was damaged very strongly, he had to work in an ammunition factory.
In the year 1944 he was drawn again and heavily wounds from an American hand grenade.
The fragments from the grenade couldn't be removed and he lived with them till he died some years ago.
This is the Russian T-34 /85 tank. The T-34 /85 had a 85mm gun.
This is a German 2cm anti-aircraft cannon 38 L/65. These cannon had the calibre 20mm x 138 and was fed from a magazine which held 20 rounds. It fires theoretical 480 rounds/min and 220 rounds/min practical. The 2cm cannon was produced 1939 - 1944.
This is a Kettenkrad Typ NSU HK-101. On the left side from the picture you can see the VW Typ 166.
Crew: 1 soldiers and 2 passenger Years of production: 1940 - 1944 Total number produced: 8345 Speed: 70km/h
This is the passenger car Volkswagen Typ 166. It has a cruising range on the road about 500 kilometer and was a amphibious vehicle. Years of production: 1942 - 1944 Total number produced: 14283 Speed: 80km/h road and 10km/h water
This is the medium armoured personnel carrier Sd.Kfz. 251/7 version D (Armoured engineer vehicle).
Crew: 7/8 soldiers Armament: 1x handheld anti-tank rocket launcher 39 with forty rounds. 2x MG-34 or MG-42 with 4500 rounds.
This is the medium armoured personnel carrier Sd.Kfz. 251/9 version D "Stummel"(stump)
Crew: 3 soldiers Armament: 7,5cm tank-gun 37 L/24 with 52 rounds. 2x MG-34 or MG-42 with 2500 rounds.
This is the Field Marshal Baton from Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge.
This is the legendary MG-42. My grandfather and the other German soldiers called the MG-42 "Knochensaege"(bone saw). The lower weapon is visually almost identical with the MG-42, but the weapon was modified and is called MG-3. My grandfather used the MG-42, my father and I the MG-3.
This is the Sturmgewehr 44. The photos under the weapon show the "Krummer Lauf", a bent barrel with a periscope sighting device for shooting around corners from a position of safety.
Many pistols and revolver...
As always, the pictures can be looked big, with a click on the pic.
Last week I was in the German tank museum in the city Munster. On Monday I wanted to drive with a friend but Martin has canceled. I have nevertheless driven with my two nephews. On Thursday Martin has spoken on the phone to me and asked whether I come along on Friday. The museum is very big, you needed more time than one day to look at everything and therefore I have gone once again.
I show photos of four well known German tanks in this post. Within the next days I show further and even rarer German tanks. In addition photos of the uniform from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and many many more...
This is a Panzer III design M(Ausfuehrung M).
It was manufactured in the year 1942 and was a part of the German Afrika Korps. The tank was destroyed by the crew west of Tunis in May 1943.
This is a Panzer IV design G(Ausfuehrung G).
It was manufactured in September 1942 ansd served with the 15. Panzerdivision in North Africa.
The tank was captured by British troops in the end of 1942.
This is a Panzer V design A(Ausfuehrung A) "Panther".
It is a leader tank with radio equipment.
France sold the "Panther" in 1946 to Sweden. The tank served until the year 1961 in the Swedish Army.
This is a Panzer VI B design B (Ausfuehrung B) "Tiger II".
The Tiger II was also called "King-Tiger"
All tanks are roadworthy, the Tiger II unfortunately not.
The pictures can be looked big, with a click on the pic. If somebody liked to see detail pictures from these tanks, then write an email to me.
JgStephan@email.de
I have been tagged from Mauser*girl.
Seven things I want to do before I die:
1. Being able to write and speak the English language perfectly
2. Have a job, a job I thoroughly enjoy
3. Meet a woman these fits to me
4. See America, Australia and...
5. To own a Colt M1911 and...
6. Fly a airplane
7. To be a good photographer
Seven things I can do:
1. Handling animals well
2. Shooting with a rifle
3. Play billiard
4. Repair engines and other parts from motorbikes and cars
5. To listen
6. Laugh about myself
7. Make twisted jokes
Seven things I cannot do:
1. Play piano and other musical instrument (saxophone a little bit)
2. Eating less and more healthily
3. To draw
4. To do the splits
5. Forgiving me for my faults
6. Sewing
7. Dancing well
Seven things I say a lot :
1. "Pech gehabt"
2. "Das ist normal, ich habe immer Pech"
3. "Shit happens"
4. "Ich wuerde gern wieder schiessen gehen"
5. "Wo hast Du Idiot Autofahren gelernt?"
6. "Aliiinaaa"
7. "Kennst Du den Film...?"
Seven things I find attractive in a female:
1. A good character
2. A cultivated appearance
3. Intelligence
4. Honorableness
5. A sense of humor
6. Being not bigheaded
7. Nice legs
Seven celebrity crushes?
1. Heinz Ruehmann
2. Tom Hanks
3. Clint Eastwood
4. Angelina Jolie
5. Cameron Diaz
6.
7.
Seven people who have nothing better to do than to get tagged:
1. The Deep End Of The Pool
2. Brainxplosion
3. Serena Abroad
4. Fuck Howard
5. Fun With Hand Grenades
6. ???
7. All other important persons has called Mauser*girl
In my previous post I mentioned a serious crime this happened in the bunker. A very popular discotheque was there, a criminal was under the guests and ignited a hand grenade on April 29th, 2000. Over 1500 people had celebrated there and nine people got perilous injured.
Some days later the criminal Cueneyt D. was arrested and the delinquent has confessed. He confessed to to have ignited a Yugoslavian M 75 hand grenade, but he has refused every further statement. Cueneyt didn't show repentance and derided his victims in the courtroom. The injured have physical problems and live today with many small shell splinters in their bodies. The victims should get solatium, altogether 25.000,- euro. The criminal doesn't have money and therefore there was nothing at all...
Assumedly wanted the drug dealer Cueneyt take revenge and therefore this cowardly attempted murder. He originally comes from Istanbul and was known as assault and drug dealer. This criminal lives in Hamburg since 1987 and was sentenced for thirty-three crimes to the year 2000!
In Germany such dangerous criminals are punished very hard and he must for a long time into a prison. "sarcasm"
He was sentenced to twelve years and nine months custody! This disgusting scum lives now at the expense of the taxpayers and will dismiss at the latest in the year 2012. Then he can further traffic in drugs and attack innocent people.
That is Germany!
Today I show photos of the Flaktower IV from the district St. Pauli in Hamburg. I have taken the pictures last week. This is one of the biggest ever built bunker.
The bunker has a length and width of 70,5 meter and he has a height of 39 meter. He has a wall thickness of 3,5 meter and the blanket thickness is 5 meter. The bunker was built in 1942 and eight anti-aircraft cannons 12,8 cm were on the building. He had an independent water and power supply and even a hospital. Eighteen thousand people found refuge here at air raids.
I stand directly on the Heiligengeistfeld, the Hamburger Dom is on this place repeatedly in the year. On my left side starts the famous Reeperbahn in a distance of four hundred meters.
Actually the bunker should be blown up 1946, but the plan was rejected. Almost the complete living space from the city was destroyed and windows were installed. Many people could live after the war into this bunker.
In 1992 the building was sold and the camouflage was removed.
In the district Wilhelmburg in Hamburg is another Flaktower as on my photos. A soldier of the gun crew reports in this link from his experiences.
The links are in English unless of the Hamburger Dom.
Some years ago a serious crime happened in the bunker, I report from it later.
I have played billiard with my buddy Matthias on Friday evening. We have drink some Jack Daniels whiskey, although I find this drink disgusting and I have actually won all games.
At the last game it got boring and I have played the black billiard ball deliberately to the wrong hole.
I have only written this entry since I have promised it to Jen.
After I have been in Hamburg last week, I took some pictures in our city on the cemetery. This cemetery wasn't used as of 1943, as of this year only persons were buried in family graves. Many war graves here are from the World War I, the graves of German soldiers from the World War II were leveled
The chapel was built in 1888, the design reminds of Gothic buildings with Romance elements.
The way with the old trees leads into the back part of the cemetery.
This memorial stone stands at the end of the way of the previous picture.
Here rests my dear son, our dearest brother
Grenadier Herm. Schmidt
Sturmbataillon 4 2. Kompanie
born: November 21st, 1898
died: July 8th, 1918
at his injury got on April 10th, 1918
our love follows you
This memorial stone shall remind of forty Russians who have died in the war in our city. At this place were originally the graves of four hundred German soldiers from the Word War II.
Your sons killed in action in the World War 1914-18
The grateful homeland
You can read the names of many killed soldiers on the two sides and the back. A mother from our city has lost all her four sons in the war.
These stairs lead to a hill on which another memorial stone stands. The stone is very weathered and you can hardly read the names, but he also dates from the World War I.
The memorial stone reminds of a completely destroyed company and many of the killed soldiers were from our city.
A look from the view of the memorial stone. The next picture shows the grave of a soldier from the World War II. It lay behind high bushes and was overlooked as the other graves was leveled.
To remember on
Gefreiten Fried. Hackmack
born: September 28th, 1922
died: October 8th, 1943
He died for Fuehrer and Vaterland
How always, click on the photos to zoom in.
