What Publication Are These From?

[pstrany]

Hi;

was wondering if anyone could identify the source of these two images. One appears to be a book, the other is some type of mechanical drawing. Both images are sourced from the internet courtesy webcrawler, which would not let me identify the site they came from.

However, I am interested in the original source, be it book, magazine or etc.

Thanks!

Paul

[Jukka Juutinen]

I am not 100 % certain, but the design of the page on the right looks very much like from an After the Battle book, either the BoB T&N or one of the Blitz T&N volumes.

[hucks216]

The one on the right is indeed from one of the ATB publications, namely The Blitz Then & Now Vol 1 (Page 148).

[Andy Saunders]

I have a very large and similar 1970 German Bundeswehr handbook on all WW2 German air dropped weapons with pull out charts and specs etc (just like that on the left) and I suspect your illustration (on left) is a French version of the same.

[pstrany]

I have "The Blitz Then and Now" ordered. What was the name of the Bundeswehr handbook? Maybe I can still get one (one can only hope......)

Thanks!!

Paul

[Doug Stankey]

It may help you to know that the best publication on this subject that I have seen is:

Fleischer, Wolfgang. Deutsche Abwurfmunition bis 1945 (Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag, 2003). ISBN: 3-613-02286-9.

There is now an English language version of this under the title:
"German Air-Dropped Weapons to 1945"

hardcover , 250 pages, $39.95 at amazon.com

This book has drawings and photos of each type of bomb and discusses the fuse variations, etc. It has a very limited amount about bomb racks and makes only cursory reference to bomb sights and sequencers.

I strongly recommend this book if you are interested in German bombs.