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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.
Description; A gold color metal and enamel device 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 inches (2.7 cm) in height consisting of a shield blazoned: Azure, three bendlets sinister Argent, a bend double-cottized potente counter-potente Or; on a canton Gules a mullet within a fish-hook fesswise, ring to dexter and barb to base, of the second (for the 5th Field Artillery).
Activated in 1918 for World War I, it was reactivated for World War II and again during the Cold War. During both World War II and the Cold War it was subordinate to the Seventh Army , or USAREUR and was headquartered at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart , West Germany , from 1951 until it was redeployed to the US after significant success in the ...
The 10.5 cm leFH 18/40 supplemented the 10.5 cm leFH 18 and the 10.5 cm leFH 18M as the standard divisional field howitzer used during the Second World War. It was designed in an effort to lighten the weight of the 105 mm artillery piece and to make it easier to produce.
A Volksartilleriekorps (People's Artillery Corps) was a brigade-sized massed artillery formation employed by the German Army in World War II from late 1944 until the end of the war. A Volksartilleriekorps (VAK) was typically composed of five or six battalions of differing kinds of howitzers and guns, including antitank and anti-aircraft guns.
Bavarian Field Artillery Ersatz Abteilungen 1 (two batteries), 2 & 3 (each three batteries) 7th Battery/ Foot Artillery Rgt. 13 (10-cm cannons) 3rd Battery/ Reserve Foot Artillery 13 (heavy field howitzers) 2nd Bavarian Ersatz Pioneer Company; On October 3, 1914, the new Bavarian 3rd Reserve Brigade joined the division from the 30th Reserve ...
Armeekorps) was a corps which served in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. The corps was created on May 20, 1940 in Wehrkreis III . During the war, the corps was subordinated to the German 6th, 16th, 18th, and 3rd Panzer Armies.
The Augsburg mission was the longest low level penetration raid ever undertaken during the Second World War. [33] However, a loss rate of 58% was clearly unsustainable. The results indicated daylight attacks against defended targets were no more practical in 1942 than they had been in 1940. [14]