Monte Camino (Just south of the Gustav Line) November - December 1943: A German anti-aircraft gun crew keep watch in the snow covered hills near Monte Camino, Italy.

Anti-aircraft battery

A Krupp K5 railway gun fires off a round, circa 1944.  It shot a 255kg shell out of it's 21m long barrel, up to a distance of 64km.

Railway Gun

A Flak-18 battery and the gunner with its rangefinder. There are 4 score marks on the gun barell.  Voronezh, Russia vicinity,1942.
 The Flak 18 (commonly called the eighty-eight) was a German 88 mm anti-aircraft and anti-tank artillery gun from World War II. It was widely used by Germany throughout the war, and was one of the most recognized German weapons of that conflict. 

 Flak is a contraction of German Flugzeugabwehrkanone meaning "aircraft-defense cannon", the original purpose of the eighty-eight.
