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    Post WWII danish use of a german 10x80 20 degree

    I just found this photo online.
    https://arkiv.dk/vis/3950751

    Seems it is a danish postwar use of a german 10x80 20 degree.

    On the fort: Kongelundsfortet

    At this time, with a Garand, meaning post 1950, the fort was part of the air defense around Copenhagen.

    The bino seems to be in original german grey.

    The coat is unknown to me. Boots suggest navy personnel. But the coastal forts around Copenhagen has switched between army, navy, and airforce over the years.
    The dome´s behind the man are probably for the old cannons. If so, this is pre 1955. Later they had radars and AA rockets. (Update. found the same man on a dated photo. it´s 1954)
    Unrelated to the Bino issue, yours truly participated in an attempt to blow up this facility 20 years ago. According to the plan, we succeeded. Yiee-haaaw.

    PS: A tower for a rangefinder, same fort:
    http://www.vestvolden.info/Kongelund/Taarn2.jpg

    more rangefinder, different make:
    https://arkiv.dk/vis/254767
    https://arkiv.dk/vis/124852
    Last edited by Mikedenmark; 05-07-2018, 06:22 AM.

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    An update.
    On the very last photo in my former entry, you can actually see the post where the 10x80 was mounted. Look far right, there the post is visible.

    I remember having seen a 10x80 mounted just in front of a similar rangefinder, on the armour plate surrounding the rangefinder. For use at some kind of adjustment or the like. Just a guess, but maybe this post served a similar purpose.

    Another german used rangefinder. This time italian.
    http://www.vores-nordsjaelland.dk/im...s/B0103252.jpg

    Employed on the northern coast of Sealand (Sjælland)
    Last edited by Mikedenmark; 05-07-2018, 10:52 AM.

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      #3
      The 10x80 -80 is a nice one but my interest is more info about the krankelevator .
      Hopefully someone do find an unopened store with a lot of this type of stands with krankelevator

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