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20 mm and 37 mm antiaircraft guns on U-Boats
Posted by: Gaines Blackwell ()
Date: January 03, 2009 12:37AM

Search turned up no responce so I will start a post. I am curious as to what happened to the above when a boat dived. . They are too large to take below, it would seem so how were they protected against salt water. Deck guns appear to have muzzle caps and the breech is pretty tight. Would the smaller guns have muzzle caps and was the nmechanism just exposed ? It would seem after many weeks at sea the guns would suffer. The MG 34s and 42s could be removed but the larger guns ?

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20 mm and 37 mm antiaircraft guns on U-Boats Gaines Blackwell 01/03/2009 12:37AM
Re: 20 mm and 37 mm antiaircraft guns on U-Boats Ken Dunn 01/03/2009 03:08AM
Re: 20 mm and 37 mm antiaircraft guns on U-Boats Gaines Blackwell 01/06/2009 12:17AM


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