January-February - Air Defense Artillery

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20mm flak 30.
sance ,planes from making damagc-estimate photographs.
Smoke was permitted to be used only where the wind
velocity was between two and six kilometers per hour.
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The well-known 8.8cm flak gun was the backbone of
the Munich AA defense. The i\llodel 41 was considered
the most satisfactory and it was the hope of the AA com-
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A mobile "SS" and prime mover.
mander finally to equip all 8.8cm b:mcrics with this m
Just how far the change-over had progressed is not k
but it was stated that the bulk of the 8.8's in this
were ~Iodel 37,
A maximum of three batteries of IO.5cm flak ouns
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llsed in the ~ Iunich defense. \ Vhile the gun was not
erally popular with flak troops, the i\ Iunich commander
dicated that he considered it a satisfactory weapon
would have liked to have had more of them.
There is no indication that 12.8cm flak guns were
used in the permanent defenses of ~lunich. However,
special occasions some batteries on railway mounts ,
incorporated into the city's defenses. This gun, the 1
was considered the most satisfactory of all heavy guns
the defense of large cities because of its longer effe
range and the greater destructi,'e power of its projectile.
lesser degree of mobility and great wcight wcre not
sidered important in the defense of cities.
In the field of light flak, the most popular weapon
defense against low-level attack was the 2cm Flakvicr
38. Not all light batteries were equippcd with this 111
and large numbers of older models were still in use at
war's end. The 3.7cm flak gun was not used in very I
numbers in the early years of the war, but the number
increased toward rile' end as the number of attacks
creased.
Radar was not available to the Munich /\1\ defense u
1941. In that year the \,Vurzburg C Model was issued
the basis of one to each three or four heav\' oun batte'
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The radar was emplaced near the center of the batte
and the data from the radar was telephoned to each batt
The battery was responsible for calculating the data for
own position. The maximum distance from the radar un
this set-up was seven kilometcrs. As more radars bcca
available in 1942, each battery was equipped with one un
In 1943 the \Vurzburg D was substituted for the C M
and an attempt was made to eguip each 200cm searchliv
with the late model detector.
The Freya long-range sets were used to provide ear
warning data for all units in the Munich area.