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Re: Tracking a german deck gun?
Posted by: raalst ()
Date: August 22, 2012 07:57PM

I have the same question for the Jersey 88.
it is a "8,8cm S.K.C/35 in 8,8cm Ubts.L.C/35", sounds pretty submarine to me..

This specific gun has nearly all it's parts stamped "77"
I was hoping there is some record kept about uboat changes and/or that there was a habit of marking equipment with the number of the boats.
I have no further clue wheter U77 could have been the "home" of this gun.

the jersey 88 is salvaged from a unidentified armed trawler (vorpostenboot)
at the french atlantic coast, and it could well be that the gun started
out on a sub. around 1943 they were taken off the subs, and therefore could have been reused on these surface vessels (they were located close to the sub bases..)

Regards,
Ronald van Aalst

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Tracking a german deck gun? David Hoeyer 04/25/2012 12:36PM
Re: Tracking a german deck gun? raalst 08/22/2012 07:57PM
Re: Tracking a german deck gun? Ken Dunn 08/22/2012 08:11PM
Re: Tracking a german deck gun? raalst 08/22/2012 08:14PM


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