Bolt Action - Luftwaffe Field Division 8.8cm Flak 37 Anti-Tank Gun (Plastic) cards an understandable but sad end

an understandable but sad end to an elite fighting unit

75mm PaK 40 anti-tank gun (Veteran) 132 pts

the Ramcke Parachute Brigade was formed to assist Axis forces in the Western Desert campaign in 1942

in addition to those that may have been assigned at company level

Bolt Action - Luftwaffe Field Division 8.8cm Flak 37 Anti-Tank Gun (Plastic) cards an understandable but sad endOriginally 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,