Early ball-hinged flaks arrived

[rfleming32]

Great photo's .... and also at night ...

[Robert P.]

Great photo! I wonder if they used cordite powder for a propellant.???

Robert

[Joe D]

Nice Flaks Robert

[Tony]

Nice badges Robert!
Ball hinged Flak badges are my favorites

Great Flak pictures also!

Tony

[Robert P.]

Thanks guys,

I still can't get over those muzzle flashes above. What a signal saying, "Here we are!" Some slow-burning powder!

Robert

[Marc Garlasco]

Robert,

You need to read Edward Westermann's "FLAK" which has details of the ammunition.
Marc

[Robert P.]

Robert,

You need to read Edward Westermann's "FLAK" which has details of the ammunition.
Marc

Can you get it through Amazon, or Half.com, or both? I'll do a search. It's very interesting to me.

Here it is. I've got one coming. Thank you, Marc.
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0700614...pf_rd_i=507846

Robert

[Marc Garlasco]

It is the BIBLE for the flak forces. I wrote one of the reviews on Amazon.
Marc

[Robert P.]

It should be here around the end of May. Good reading, huh? Good.

I've been reading a 50-page 8 1/2 X 11 booklet called 'The 88mm Flak' by Werner Muller. It has many good photographs, and some interesting reading about the different calibers of guns and tools to make the guns mobile in the field, railway and field tractors, even a 4-gun floating fotilla and ferries. They mention in the book about working with powders to help eliminate some of the muzzle flash for night firing. Very interesting.

Robert