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WWII German munitions

BOMBSaway1980

BOMBSaway1980

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Reading though a few old documents and found some old German munition names that were discovered during the War. Here are the names of the items. If anybody has picture of the items please post them.

Faustpatrone described as a rocket grenade
Puppchen described as wheeled Bazooka
Hochdruckpumpe described as super gun

Guided missiles are as follows
Schwetterling
Wasserfall
Rheintochter
Enzian
Feuerlilie
Ruhrstahl
Beethoven
Fritz X
Taifun
And the Henschel

I also found a description of a cluster bomb known as the Newman. I'm just interested to see if any picture can be Found of these weapons.
 
Great clips Dave,I got shot down by a Wasserfall in secret weapons over Normandy once!:bigsmile:


Tony
 
The Hockdruckpumpe was also known as the V-3 and was built at Mimoyecques in Northern France

Schwetterling is misspelt it should be Schmetterling (Butterfly)

There are illustrations of most of these weapons in "German Secret Weapons" by Hogg SBN 85368 053 1
 
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