the 88mm anti-aircraft gun…. (See the deadliest German U-boat attacks on World War II.) After Germany put the Soviet Union on the backfoot when it invaded that country in 1941, the Soviet Union ...

Over Germany, Italy, Japan, “Flak” (anti-aircraft gun) was, along with enemy fighters, the main threat to Allied bombers. An Army Air Force training film explains FlaK (from the German word fo ...

anti-aircraft gun and torpedo in his basement. The items were removed from a house in the northern town of Heikendorf in 2015 with the help of the army. Prosecutors and defence lawyers are now ...

During World War II, half of the Allied bombers shot down over Germany may have victims of "flak" — a shortened version of a German word for 1930s-era anti-aircraft guns. By the 1950s ...