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Great Austrian Skoda gun which fired a 12-inch shellVintage Photographs - Artillery
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photos of artillery developed and deployed during wartime.

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Bringing up a Belgian field gun, 1914 (CNP)

Great Austrian Skoda gun which fired a 12-inch shell (CNP)

Generals Foch and Fayolle examining German 77's (CNP)

Battery of anti-aircraft guns near Kupa, Macedonia (CNP)
Yale artillery companies with a battery of 75's (CNP) Artillery at the Officers' Training Camp, Plattsburg, N.Y. (CNP)
Moving artillery in the Alps (CNP) British artillery hammering the German lines (CNP)
Finding the range for the 75's (CNP) Camouflaged artillery post (CNP)
Loading a big coast-defence gun (CNP) Australian artillery ready for battle (CNP)
Learning a French quick-firing gun (CNP) First Virginia field artillery at drill (CNP)
British Tommies pulling a field gun out of the mud (CNP) Moving a French gun on the Somme battle front (CNP)
French artillery after fighting through a gas attack (CNP) 400 millimetre gun in action (CNP)
Lengthwise view of 400 millimetre gun and its machinery (CNP) Large French mortar just after discharge (CNP)
French soldier discharging 'Crapouillots' (CNP) Armoured train with a gun turret (CNP)
Front view of a gun position (CNP) Bringing up shells on a narrow-guage railroad (CNP)
Motor-mounted gun in a camouflaged position (CNP) Ammunition depot, where shells for 75's are concealed (CNP)
Camouflaged battery in Belgium (CNP) French gun pounding enemy lines in the Vosges (CNP)
Moving great shells in a camouflaged position (CNP) Great supply of shells close to the firing lines (CNP)
Revolving turret and gun on an armoured train (CNP) Huge French gun in camouflaged position in Italy (CNP)
Thoroughly concealed artillery position (CNP) Workmen completing a 20-inch French gun (CNP)
British field artillery (MF) King George V in a gun-pit (MF)
British artillery piece (MF) French artillery men in boats, 1915 (MF)
French people with artillery shell (MF) Russian artillery (CPE)
Moving a French 75mm gun (CPE) Moving a German gun (CPE)
Austrian field artillery in Russia (CPE) Germans refortifying Antwerp, 1914 (CPE)
Wreckage of a Brussels fort, 1914 (CPE) Gun destroyed by Japanese shell at Bismarck Fort, Tsing-tau (CPE)
Japanaese bombardment at Tsing-tau (CPE) German battery in the snows of Poland (CPE)
French 220mm cannon, 1914 (MF) Australian heavy gun at work (MF)
Hot work for the Australian gunners (MF) Loading a trench mortar (MF)
Tractor for transporting British guns (CPE) Serving a gun on a British armoured train (CPE)
Range finder or telemeter (CPE) A large German 8-inch gun in action (CPE)
A captured Russian cannon (CPE) Work of an Austrian siege gun, the Skoda (CPE)
A large Italian 8.2 inch mortar (CPE) Italian batteries at nightfall in the Isonzo (CPE)
German anti-aircarft gun mounted on a turntable (CPE) Italian battery in a protected position (CPE)
Italian artillerymen pulling a gun to a vantage point (CPE) French artillery in the Battle of Champagne (CPE)
British artillery at Gallipoli on Cape Helles (CPE) Bursting shell which killed the photographer (visible at bottom) (CPE)
An Austrian siege gun in Serbia (CPE) British soldiers hoisting the shell for a giant gun (CPE)
Guns in a captured Romanian fortress, 1916 (CPE) Platform and mechanism of a well-placed mortar (CPE)
British gunners who have sighted German aircraft (CPE) Anzac artillery in the Battle of the Somme, 1916 (CPE)
French guns passing on a road in the Verdun battlefield (CPE) A German 380-mm shell striking a house in Verdun (CPE)
Italian gun on a mountain-top fighting for the Trentino (CPE) Bringing up the French 75's in the fighting on the Somme (CPE)
Russian artillery and cavalry in the Carpathians (CPE) Turkish 18-pounder Krupp gun captured by British Indians (CPE)
A huge British mortar (CNP) Big British mortar in position near the Somme (CNP)
Captured German artillery on show in Paris after the war (SR) Stylised sketch of use of heavy duty tractors to pull guns (SR)
Belgian artillery in Flanders, early 1914 (SR) French artillery pounding the German lines (SR)
Belgian field guns in the Battle of Hofstade (WW) Italian heavy howitzer used against Germans on the Piave (WW)
Hauling Italian big guns up Mount Grappa (WW) Italian gun being brought across a Trentino Alps valley by cable (WW)
Shrapnel shells being capped with time fuses at Bethlehem Steel Works (WW) Tons of metal ready to be placed within shells (WW)
Pounding a big gun into shape at Bethlehem Steel Works (WW) Members of U.S. field artillery grooming their horses (WW)
U.S. artillery in France (WW) British gun sinking on the roadside (WW)
British gun after firing (WW) Effects of a high explosive shell (WW)
Heavy French artillery (WW) British gunners working a 6-inch Howitzer battery (WW)
British sending shells behind German lines on the Western Front (WW) British Royal Horse Artillery approaching a battery position (WW)

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A 'Woolly Bear' comprised a German shrapnel shell, which burst with a cloud-like explosion.

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