(11-11-2019, 03:55 PM)J6A Wrote: There is a lot on the subject if you Google it, and general consensus is that it was used for indirect fire, albeit not frequently.
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=139869 is 1 such topic.
Some good information....A few things show up alot in researching this:
1) The Allied soldier thought every kind of art that shot at him was an '88'....
2) The german 88s had fixed ammo loads (shell velocity would be consistent) and had the options only of varying the fuse... meaning that they could fire the weapon with a timed
explosion...but "lobbing" shells in high arcs, as indirect artillery does, not really an option....
Firing long range, at things you can see --- no question...
Firing long range, at things you can't see and are tuning----I suppose that is where the "stories" of Indirect artillery come from....
the lobbing of shells from TD (M10s) with their 3inch guns is perhaps closest example...on prepared ramps....for elevation....
Still leaves an unpleasant taste, but, there are those who think it defendable, --- I will have to acquiesce....
cj
