10 cm houfnice vz. 28 10 cm houfnice vz. 28 The 10 cm houfnice vz. 28 (howitzer model 28) was a Czech howitzer used in limited numbers by the Yugoslav Army during World War II. The Yugoslavians ordered twenty houfnice vz. 28 guns which they referred to as the 100 mm M.28. Guns captured from Yugoslavia by the Germans were given the designation 10 cm leFH 317(j). The origins of the houfnice vz. 28 began in 1928 at the Škoda Works in Pilsen. The design attempted to combine the howitzer and mountain gun roles into one weapon. The houfnice vz. 28 combined a two-wheeled box
Old Noarlunga, South Australia Old Noarlunga, South Australia Old Noarlunga (formerly Noarlunga) is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located about south of the state capital of Adelaide. Originally settled around 1840, the town retains its village atmosphere in spite of encroaching suburbia. At the 2006 census, Old Noarlunga had a population of 1,252. The name Noarlunga most likely derives from 'nurlongga', an indigenous compound word meaning "curve place" referring to the Horseshoe Bend curvature in the Onkaparinga River at the early Noarlunga township. Various official sources record Noarlunga as meaning "fishing place" based on a conflicting translation by early South