Sale Price:
£25.00
Original Price:
£38.00
This is an original Second World War German Rkr 31 (Richtkreis 31) optical aiming circle recovered from defensive positions occupied by Fallschirmjäger Regiment 15 on the famous Hill 112 battlefield in Normandy.
The Richtkreis 31 was a precision optical surveying and fire-control instrument used by the German Army to measure both horizontal and vertical angles for the accurate aiming of indirect fire weapons. It was primarily employed with artillery pieces and mortars but could also be used with machine guns such as the MG34 and MG42 when mounted on tripod or Lafette mounts for indirect fire.
The instrument was designed for both direct observation and map plotting, enabling gun crews to accurately establish positions, bearings, and reference points. It features a precision telescope with an integral levelling bubble, together with a spherical level to ensure the instrument could be accurately aligned before use. The angle-of-sight and traversing mechanisms are finely graduated, allowing for extremely accurate measurements in the field.
Recovered from the positions of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 15 on Hill 112, one of the most fiercely contested battlefields of the Normandy Campaign, this is a scarce and historically significant piece of German military equipment. It represents the type of specialist optical instrument used by German artillery and heavy weapons units during the fighting following the Allied landings in June 1944.
This is an excellent and highly desirable display piece, ideal for collectors of German optics, Fallschirmjäger memorabilia, or Normandy campaign relics.
This is an original Second World War German Rkr 31 (Richtkreis 31) optical aiming circle recovered from defensive positions occupied by Fallschirmjäger Regiment 15 on the famous Hill 112 battlefield in Normandy.
The Richtkreis 31 was a precision optical surveying and fire-control instrument used by the German Army to measure both horizontal and vertical angles for the accurate aiming of indirect fire weapons. It was primarily employed with artillery pieces and mortars but could also be used with machine guns such as the MG34 and MG42 when mounted on tripod or Lafette mounts for indirect fire.
The instrument was designed for both direct observation and map plotting, enabling gun crews to accurately establish positions, bearings, and reference points. It features a precision telescope with an integral levelling bubble, together with a spherical level to ensure the instrument could be accurately aligned before use. The angle-of-sight and traversing mechanisms are finely graduated, allowing for extremely accurate measurements in the field.
Recovered from the positions of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 15 on Hill 112, one of the most fiercely contested battlefields of the Normandy Campaign, this is a scarce and historically significant piece of German military equipment. It represents the type of specialist optical instrument used by German artillery and heavy weapons units during the fighting following the Allied landings in June 1944.
This is an excellent and highly desirable display piece, ideal for collectors of German optics, Fallschirmjäger memorabilia, or Normandy campaign relics.
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