"CONFLICT -IN- CAMERA"
A regularly updated portfolio of photographs from our archives
show casing our chosen period of military history
show casing our chosen period of military history
The German V-1 Launch site at Campneuseville - Beaulieu, Normandy, France.
The "Tommy Cooker"; This German PAK 76 Anti-Tank gun could hurl a tungsten cored shell with a striking velocity of nearly 3000 fps at 600 yds. Enough to punch clean through the armour of a Sherman Tank.
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It's all about Firepower! Ball and Musket then, HE Shell now. The result is still the same though albeit a lot more efficient.
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Concrete monsters built for belligerence they maybe, but one cannot ignore that they have a strange kind of beauty in their now abandoned state: German coastal artillery bunkers on the Atlantic Wall, Northern France.
All images on this page are copyright: Steve Sullivan, October 2019
