Bolt Action - 8.8cm Flak 37 British Commandos the few that saw service

the few that saw service were deployed in the air defence units of Japanese tank divisions

Nation: United States

In the American army

with bayonet and without)

and 6 infantrymen with rifles

Bolt Action - 8.8cm Flak 37 British Commandos the few that saw serviceOriginally developed as an anti aircraft weapon, the Flak 37 8. 8cm (or Eighty eight as it became known by Allied troops) had a high muzzle velocity, making it an exceptionally deadly anti tank weapon as many Allied tank crews would learn to their peril. The 88 could also be deployed as a conventional artillery piece as one infantryman noted, the 88 was 'anti everything' The 88 saw service on all fronts in which the Germans fought during WWII,