Title:SCHWERER GUSTAV RAILWAY GUN AND 8.8 CM FLAK [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 20
Other titles:KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
Summary: Edited sequences illustrate the Krupp manufactured 8.8cm Flak, the giant 80cm Krupp railway gun Schwerer Gustav, 2cm Flak and searchlight, Heinkel He 111B and Arado Ar 68F.
Description: I. 8.8cm Flak position camouflaged with housing in background and smoking factory chimney. Barrel raised. Gun crew about to load.
II. 80cm Schwerer Gustav railway gun (nicknamed "Dora" by the German Army and ready for proof-firing in September 1941) rests in position beneath its mobile crane, with ropes attached to the front section of the barrel, the other section not having been joined on.
III. Loading 8.8cm Flak. Gun crew out of tent. 8.8cm Flak barrel raised to near vertical. Flak puffs in sky. Gun crew look through range-finder. Another view of 8.8cm Flak raised to vertical. Distant view of three 8.8cm Flak. Firing. Big flash.
IV. Heinkel He 111B being bombed up.
V. Krupp light 6x4 AA tractor tows 2cm Flak cannon.
VI. Krupp medium 6x4 cargo lorry tows searchlight across country.
VII. Luftwaffe Flak position, cut to three Arado Ar 68F's in flight. 8.8cm Flak opens fire. Camouflaged 8.8cm Flak being loaded (duplicates first sequence).
Personalities, Units and Organisations: German Army (regiment/service)
German Air Force (regiment/service)
Krupp (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, German - combat: Arado Ar 68F (object name)
aircraft, German - combat: Heinkel He 111B (object name)
equipment, German military - surveillance: searchlight (object name)
operations, German air - preparation: bombing up (object name)
operations, German military - preparation: artillery (object name)
transport, German military - prime mover: Krupp 6x4 AA tractor (object name)
transport, German military - truck: Krupp 6x4 medium (object name)
weapons, German - gun [AA]: 8.8cm Flak (object name)
weapons, German - gun [AA]: 2cm flak (object name)
weapons, German - gun [AA]: 80cm Schwerer Gustav 'Dora' [railway gun] (object name)
ships, German naval - submarine (?): Deutschland (object name)
industry, German - munitions: Krupp workshops (object name)
Germany & Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia <Krupp complex> (geography)
