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Re: what's "H.E. Flak"
Good evening !
In a German WW 2 term, H. E. would never be "high explosive", even if the munition-type was a kind of "hoch explosiv". The act of destruction, caused by the ammo was described like "Panzer-Brand-Spreng-Granat-Patrone" was noticed: e.g. PzBrSprGrPtr. Never HE for High Explosive or Hoch Explosiv.
Postwar, when the European Forces, including Germany were standarsized into NATO terminology, those ammo terms came up. In my BW-time., HE was always "High Explosive", shot from a 20mm, 30mm, 40mm or 76mm weapon of the Bundeswehr. Myself served in the Panzertruppe of the Bundeswehr and we had in our LEOPaRD I or in our M-48-A2-GA-2 HEAT(High Explosive Anti Tank), HESH (High Explosive Smash Head) and APDS (Armour Piercing Discharging Sabots) as ammunition.
H.E. was never a term of German ammo.
All the best,
borsto
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