A flak jacket or flak vest is a form of body armor. A flak jacket is designed to provide protection from case fragments ("frag") from high explosive weaponry...

The 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 is a German 88 mm anti-aircraft and anti-tank artillery gun, developed in the 1930s. It was widely used by Germany throughout...

The army flak artillery (Heeresflakartillerie) had become its own branch of the Wehrmacht artillery on 15 June 1941,: 191  after first army flak artillery...

was a flak vest designed for the United States Marine Corps during the Korean war. Following the joint US Army and Marine Corps designed M51 Flak Jacket...

Pommernland. According to Scherzer as chief of the battery "Lausitz" in the Marine-Flak-Abteilung 259. The brackets around the doctor title [Dr.] denotes that...

7 April 1943 as Oberleutnant of the Reserves and battery chief in the 1./Flak-Regiment (motorized) 14. According to Scherzer on 30 April 1945. According...

Kriegsmarine or Heer command. There were also anti-aircraft artillery (Marine Flak) batteries in Kristiansand, Bergen, Trondheim, Bogen, and Harstad; these...

The 3.7 cm Flak M42 was the marine version of the 3.7-centimetre (1.5 in) Flak 36/37 and used by the Kriegsmarine on surface ships and as the M42U on...

Aufklärungsstaffe 4.(F)/122. According to Scherzer as chief of battery "Völtzendorf"/Marine Flak-Abteilung 219. According to Scherzer as Staffelkapitän of the Aufklärungsstaffel...

"Deutschland". According to Scherzer as chief 4 (Battery "Sagorsch")/Marine-Flak-Abteilung 259 in Gotenhafen. According to Scherzer as Zugführer (platoon...

respectability to the Nazi Party. From 1939 to 1944 Franz Joseph commanded a marine flak battery at the Cuxhaven naval base. In June 1944 he was released from...

are United States Marine Corps deep reconnaissance companies that supply military intelligence to the command element of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force...

Iron Cross on 11 April 1943 as Kapitän zur See and commander of 22. Marine-Flak-Regiment Fellgiebel 2000, p. 305. Scherzer 2007, p. 532. Fellgiebel,...

The first such German gun, the Flak 16, was introduced in 1917, using the 88 mm caliber, common in the Kaiserliche Marine. The barrel for the 8.8 cm K.Zugflak...

FlaK 38 was a German anti-aircraft gun used during World War II by the Luftwaffe. An improved version was introduced as the 10.5 cm FlaK 39. The Flak...

its warships, in addition to a PASGT-derived vest known as the "U.S. Navy Flak Jacket". PASGT is an acronym, standing for Personnel Armor System for Ground...

cm Flak M42 gun on the LM 42U mount. The LM 42U mount was the most common mount used with the 3.7 cm Flak M42U. The 3.7 cm Flak M42U was the marine version...

include the German Flak or FlaK (Fliegerabwehrkanone, 'aircraft defence cannon', also cited as Flugabwehrkanone), whence English flak, and the Russian term...

shore personnel and assigned to either the Marine-Artillerie-Einheiten (for naval artillery) or Marine-Flak-Einheiten (naval anti-aircraft). Artillery...

Artillerieträger-Flottille. According to Scherzer as chief 4 (Battery "Sagorsch")/Marine-Flak-Abteilung 259 in Gotenhafen. There is no reference of the Knight's Cross...

Navy and Marine Corps Parachutist Insignia, which requires additional jumps. Flak Jacket – Antiquated term for ballistic vest or body armor. Flak and Kevlar...

This is a list of individual combat equipment issued by the United States Marine Corps. This list does not include items that are issued as uniforms or weapons...

one stripe for each three-year period of service, while the United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, and United States Coast Guard authorize one stripe...

France and Norway as part of the Atlantic Wall. Naval bases were protected by flak-batteries of the Kriegsmarine against enemy air raids. The Kriegsmarine also...

as missing in action. Slightly wounded, Thiele was taken captive by the flak crew that had shot him down and was sent to a prisoner of war camp at Dulag...

was occupied by the German military during World War II, used by the Marine Flak Abteilung 804 as a command center. The unit was dedicated to coastal...

end of war. Allied sources sometimes refer to this class of vessel as a "Flak Lighter" or "F-lighter". Four types, A–D, were developed, whose size and...

Busters U.S. Gold Platinum Productions (David J. Anderson, Ian Morrison) 1985 Flak U.S. Gold 1985 Impossible Mission U.S. Gold Epyx 1985 Raid over Moscow U...

generally considered that flak was of little use against bombers of ever-increasing performance. The lethal radius of a flak shell is fairly small, and...

harmony with the Navy and Marine Corps. The proposed CW6 insignia had two narrow, vertical, parallel, black stripes. The Marine Corps has had warranted...