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World War I railway artillery of Germany (10 P) Pages in category "World War I artillery of Germany" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
The Stahlhelm (German for "steel helmet") is a term used to refer to a series of German steel combat helmet designs intended to protect the wearer from common battlefield hazards such as shrapnel. The armies of the great powers began to issue steel helmets during World War I as a result of combat experience and experimentation.
The German General Staff had learned from the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) the importance of heavy artillery in destroying enemy guns and positions, [7] and advocated the use of heavy artillery in the field army. While heavy artillery is normally not mobile and only suitable for sieges, the Germans were able to develop mobile weapons that ...
In September 1915 it was ordered that the new helmets were to be worn without spikes when in the front line. [15] Beginning in 1916, the Pickelhaube was slowly replaced by a new German steel helmet (the Stahlhelm) intended to offer greater head protection from shell fragments.
Gruson 5.3cm L/24 Fahrpanzer (mobile artillery turret) Krupp 3.7 cm L/14.5 Sockelflugzeugabwehrkanone (anti-aircraft gun) Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903 (field gun) Paris Gun (also known as 21 cm "Wilhelm") Rheinmetall 3.7 cm M1918 Tankabwehrkanone (anti-tank gun)
This is a list of Imperial German artillery regiments [1] before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 100 regiments of Field artillery (plus the Lehr instruction unit) and 24 regiments of Foot artillery (plus another Lehr instruction unit) who operated the heavier pieces. Some of these regiments had a history ...
The name spread to German newspapers and then to Allied troops as "Big Bertha" and became slang for all heavy German artillery, but especially the 42-centimetre guns. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] The name has since entered the public consciousness, for example being applied as a moniker to a line of Callaway golf clubs and a satirical French-language magazine ...
It was the first artillery piece to use a modern recoil system in the German Army.Some 416 were in service at the beginning of the World War I. [1] Its mobility, which allowed it to be deployed as medium artillery, and fairly heavy shell gave the German army a firepower advantage in the early battles in Belgium and France in 1914 [2] as the French and British armies lacked an equivalent.
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