88-mm

The 88-mm dual-purpose gun was the decisive force in the German destruction of many Allied tank attacks in Normandy, above all in the open country on the British flank, where its long reach could be exploited to best effect.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

The Panzer VI, or Tiger, was the most feared German tank in Normandy, almost impenetrable by frontal Allied tank gunfire, and packing a devastating punch with its 88-mm KwK 36 gun.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

The Panzer VI, or Tiger, was the most feared German tank in Normandy, almost impenetrable by frontal Allied tank gunfire, and packing a devastating punch with its 88-mm KwK 36 gun.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

The Panzer VI, or Tiger, was the most feared German tank in Normandy, almost impenetrable by frontal Allied tank gunfire, and packing a devastating punch with its 88-mm KwK 36 gun.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

The 88-mm dual-purpose gun was the decisive force in the German destruction of many Allied tank attacks in Normandy, above all in the open country on the British flank, where its long reach could be exploited to best effect.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

The 88-mm dual-purpose gun was the decisive force in the German destruction of many Allied tank attacks in Normandy, above all in the open country on the British flank, where its long reach could be exploited to best effect.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

The Panzer VI, or Tiger, was the most feared German tank in Normandy, almost impenetrable by frontal Allied tank gunfire, and packing a devastating punch with its 88-mm KwK 36 gun.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

The 88-mm dual-purpose gun was the decisive force in the German destruction of many Allied tank attacks in Normandy, above all in the open country on the British flank, where its long reach could be exploited to best effect.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

Thus at one stroke the Inspector General was confined to the self-propelled 88-mm. on the Panther chassis, and the mass of 75-mm. on Mark IV and 38-T chassis — which made up 90 percent of assault gun production — was kept outside his authority.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Second, a remarks able faculty for retaining figures and for tactical detail — the rate of fire of a new mortar, the ammunition requirement of a platoon, the rail capacity of a given network, even such minutiae as the best way to site an 88-mm. gun.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965