Luftwaffe Victory markings

[Snoopy]

Hello

If anyone has photos with victory markings, please post them here. Aircraft, artillery and armour, of any nation and conflict.

All the best

Snoopy

This original photo, is my humble contribution.

Edited April 18, 2008 by Snoopy

[Snoopy]

[Paul R]

The black marks indicate vehicles and the white ones, air craft in this photo?

[Snoopy]

The black marks indicate vehicles and the white ones, air craft in this photo?

I believe that you are correct. Beneath the two white rings, a silhouette of an aircraft, is painted on the barrel. I believe that the dark rings, are for vehicles.

Snoopy

[Robert Noss]

Hey Snoopy,

I have some small contributions.

8.8 cm Flak at the channel coast.

From "0" to "38"

First victory 9.april 1941

They painted the victory markings to the barrel and the Kommandoger?t

and a photo of the victim

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[Robert Noss]

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let's proceed to number 4, that day they were awarded with IC 2's

and 11

the room on one side wasn't enough anymore, so they used the other side too

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[Robert Noss]

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11 on the barrel

some day the barrel broke

Now it's easier to show whole pages of the album

21 victorys - for 2 victorys the whole unit got "Abschusswimpel" - little flags that were raised at a pole near the firing position

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[Robert Noss]

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25

and 28 on the barrel

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[Robert Noss]

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30

in the end this gun had 38 victorys.

These photos are from 6 albums with about 1200 photos from a gunner in the Flak-Regiment 5 at the channel coast.

Kind regards

Robert

[Robert Noss]

Maybe one remark.

In a ground-to-air combat the whole battery got the markings on all guns, cause the whole battery fired at the airplanes together and it was probably impossible to name the gun which made the "final hit" to kill the airplane.

Robert

[Snoopy]

Hello Robert

Wow, that's the best pictures I have ever seen. It gives me a lot of painting ideas, for my scale modelling. The gun barrel, that looks like a banana peel, must really have gone off with a bang. The picture with the abschusswimpel is very interesting. I have never seen those before.

All the best

Snoopy

[christerd]

Great Photos !

I must be a fantastic album with 1200 pics from the same soldier, super that it haven?t been split up during the years!

Christer

[PKeating]

PK

[nesredep]

Hello!

Amazing photos.

All the best

Nesredep

[warfootage]

Are thos Wurzburg radar sets in the photo above ?

Thanks.

Ian

[Chris Boonzaier]

Anyone have any rings to offer?

[LarryT]

Looks like 11 aircraft and 1 tank.

Larry

[LarryT]

Thirteen kill rings.

Larry