88mm Pak 43/41 L/71
There was a version of the 88 which was a pure anti-tank gun. This was the 88mm Pak 43/41 L/71 which tipped the scales at 4350kgs.These were very rare guns. Only two German Divisions in Normandy had them. The first was the 21st Panzer division which had 24 guns, and the 716th Division which had two guns. As luck would have, Canada's Sherbrooke Fusiliers and the North Nova Scotia Highlanders faced both of these divisions, along with 12th SS Pz Div. on the 7th of June 1944.
Note that the 88mm L/71 was the version of the 88 which was mounted in the King Tiger (Tiger II).
Last edited by John McGillivray; 16-10-04 at 16:01.
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