Bolt Action - Luftwaffe Field Division 8.8cm Flak 37 Soviet Infantry Equipped in the M-43 paratrooper

Equipped in the M-43 paratrooper uniforms

With the crew in warm winter gear

including binoculars

It was used throughout the war in most theatres and gave much needed support to the hard-pressed Infantry

being used more in the fire support role as Japanese tanks posed little threat

Bolt Action - Luftwaffe Field Division 8.8cm Flak 37 Soviet Infantry Equipped in the M-43 paratrooperOriginally 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,