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Found this on the interwebs

" Early Grille 10 with 88mm Flak 37 gun. (VFW - Versuchsflakwagen fur 8.8cm Flak 37)
In 1942, German designers started the development of a new series, which would utilize chassis and components of various tanks and use them as mountings for various heavy weapons. Designs of the Grille Series incorporated many new technical modifications in order to mount heavy weapons. Some vehicles of the Grille Series were designed to be weapon carriers - Waffentrager.Some of those vehicles reached prototype stage but none of them entered production planned for mid 1945. "
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Grille=Artillery
 
Cdn303 said:
Found this on the interwebs



Grille=Artillery
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Grille=Cricket
it was a program to make more weapons self propelled, Versuchsflakwagen is a trial flak vehicle

something often forgotten about the 88, is that it was an anti aircraft gun that they decided to point at tanks because it was their only hope against heavily armoured french and british tanks early in the war
 
Probably Holland.

Definitely a WW2 pic.

Maxim 1908/15 in AA role, complete with the 100-round short-belt drum.

I want it!!!!!!!!

AND the boat; gonna need that when all this snow melts!
 
HAS to be American; only the US military would expect men to live in bell tents with snowdrifts for insulation.

Pity the poor Troopsicles running the thing!

"How did you get your Army disability, Grandpa? Were you shot by the Germans?"

"No, sweetheart, nothing like that. The Japanese invaded Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, so we had to go and chase them out. After it was over, a bunch of us stayed behind to run the Radar station, just in case they came back. It was so cold that I froze my ar$e off - it fell off, right onto the ground, and the Lieutenant was watching, so I got a Purple Heart and sent home as Disabled. I think the Germans would have been more humane!"
 
smellie said:
HAS to be American; only the US military would expect men to live in bell tents with snowdrifts for insulation.

Pity the poor Troopsicles running the thing!

"How did you get your Army disability, Grandpa? Were you shot by the Germans?"

"No, sweetheart, nothing like that. The Japanese invaded Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, so we had to go and chase them out. After it was over, a bunch of us stayed behind to run the Radar station, just in case they came back. It was so cold that I froze my ar$e off - it fell off, right onto the ground, and the Lieutenant was watching, so I got a Purple Heart and sent home as Disabled. I think the Germans would have been more humane!"
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Haw! Good one, Smellie! :)
 
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