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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.
Pages in category "World War II artillery of Germany" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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).
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl (German: ⓘ; 10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946) was a German Army Generaloberst (the rank was equal to a four-star full general) who served as the Chief of the Operations Staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout World War II.
Ferris Barracks was named in his honor and he was further honored in the Congressional Record on 17 June 2003, [15] during a ceremony dedicating the Headquarters Building, 1st Battalion, 33rd Field Artillery Regiment in Bamberg, Germany in his name. Soldiers who undergo Basic Training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, are eligible for the Geoffrey C ...
The completed barracks were occupied by the Field Artillery Regiment 72. A commemorative plaque on the officer's building commemorates the foot artillery regiment "General-Feldzeugmeister" (Brandenburg's) No. 3. In the course of the bombing of Mainz in World War II, the area was bombed several times during the following war.
The Battle of the Seelow Heights, fought over four days from 16 until 19 April, was one of the last pitched battles of World War II: almost one million Red Army soldiers and more than 20,000 tanks and artillery pieces were deployed to break through the "Gates to Berlin", which were defended by about 100,000 German soldiers and 1,200 tanks and guns.