Knut Erik Hagen sent these photos at IWM London, July 2003.
Pic 5097
The following photos are from the US Marine Corps Air-ground museum at Quantico. They were taken in Oct, 2001. Special thanks to Greg Balzer and Ken Smith-Christmas, the curator for arranging the visit. Mortar
Museum Plaque reads: Stokes-Brandt 81mm Mortar M1. Robert Horton notes: This piece is labeled Stokes Mortar in the museum, but I don't think so. If so, it is a U.S. WWII vintage 60 or 81 mm mortar.
Knut Erik Hagen took these photos in March 2004 at the Tojhusmuseet, København (Royal Danish Arsenal museum). It is a rocket launcher or minethrower or Mortar...
Grzegorz Mazurwski adds: This is probably a minethrower (mortar) but I don't know the origin, can be even British.
Robert Horton adds: ..I don't think that picture #4 is a "rocket launcher" but is some sort of heavy mortar
Knut Erik Hagen took these photos in March 2004, at the Tojhusmuseet, København (Royal Danish Arsenal museum).
Grzegorz Mazurwski adds: Looks like German 7,7cm but the shield and tail is different - maybe export version?
Robert Horton adds: This is very likely not German, and not the German 77mm of WWI.It may have been german built for one of the other European countries,which Krupp and Rheinmetall often did prior to about 1910 or so. If you notice, about half way back on the trail arm, there is a split and a hinge, they could fold the rear half up and forward. I have seen something like this on a Japanese Howitzer but I would not think this would be Japanese being displayed in a Scandanavian Museum.
Francois Louis adds: I believe it is a Belgian 75mm Field Gun. They were made by a consortium of the Belgian F.R.C and of the German Krupp. It is a version of Krupp's Model 1905 also sold to Japan.
If you can help with identification or details, please write to the Administrator of this site.
Knut Erik Hagen took these photos in March, 2004 at the Forsvarsmuseet (Armed Forces Museum), at Akershus Castle, in Oslo.
Knut Erik Hagen took these photos in March 2004 at the Tojhusmuseet, København (Royal Danish Arsenal museum).
Grzegorz Mazurwski adds: This is probably a German 57mm Panzerlafette.
Knut adds:
As far as I remember was it part of the fortifications built around Copenhagen between 1880 and WW1 which cost the Danes a great deal of money which could be considered wasted as they were outdated even before they were finished. The range of modern guns was by then such that the enemy could take out position outside range of most of the guns in the fortresses and bombard Copenhagen at their leisure. Denmark was invaded by the Germans on a regular basis in the 19th Century and lost Schleswig-Holstein to the joint German-Austrian invaders in 1864. It is highly unlikely that they would buy German weapons but most likely that they would do their best to keep themselves aware of what the Germans did develop. My guess is that they copied the German unit from plans and photos that may have been obtained one way or another. Not all the Holsteiners who were impressed in the German armed forces were loyal to their new masters and may have helped the Danes with information. I have seen the unit in Brussels, they are in my opinion similar, but not identical. So maybe we should list is as Danish version of the German PzLafette, it should be OT enough as it helped to keep WW1 out of Denmark.
Denmark was invaded by the Germans on a regular basis in the 19th Century and lost Schleswig-Holstein to the joint German-Austrian invaders in 1864. It is highly unlikely that they would buy German weapons but most likely that they would do their best to keep themselves aware of what the Germans did develop. My guess is that they copied the German unit from plans and photos that may have been obtained one way or another. Not all the Holsteiners who were impressed in the German armed forces were loyal to their new masters and may have helped the Danes with information.
I have seen the unit in Brussels, they are in my opinion similar, but not identical.
So maybe we should list is as Danish version of the German PzLafette, it should be OT enough as it helped to keep WW1 out of Denmark.
Knut Erik Hagen took this photo in March 2004 outside the Tojhusmuseet, København (Royal Danish Arsenal museum).
Update e-mail from: From: Erik/Jytte Andersen The unknown gun 12 is a 38 cm navy canon made by krupp. It is from ww2 . The same as the canons on battleship Biscmark. It is now on museum in Hanstholm ,Denmark Originaly, it was one of two canons in a twin turret, placed in Blåvandshug near Esbjerg. In Hanstholm, there was four 38 cm canons and likewise in Kristianssand in Norway, to protect Skagerag, the water betwen Denmark and Norway. The fortres in Norway still have a complete canon in turret. It is now a museum . It is known as batteri Vara . The picture is from Norway. Photo Archive | Home
The unknown gun 12 is a 38 cm navy canon made by krupp. It is from ww2 . The same as the canons on battleship Biscmark. It is now on museum in Hanstholm ,Denmark Originaly, it was one of two canons in a twin turret, placed in Blåvandshug near Esbjerg. In Hanstholm, there was four 38 cm canons and likewise in Kristianssand in Norway, to protect Skagerag, the water betwen Denmark and Norway. The fortres in Norway still have a complete canon in turret. It is now a museum . It is known as batteri Vara . The picture is from Norway.