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WEAPONRY

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Canons

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serbe canon armement gun weapon military ww1 1914 1918 guerre

Canons serbes pris par les Austro-Hongrois

Print shows Serbian cannons captured by Austro-Hungarian forces.

1915

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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British gun in action

Photograph shows British troops with large artillery guns near a house, probably during World War I.

1918 July 6 

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

paris canon armement gun weapon military ww1 1914 1918 guerre

New French Siege gun

Photograph shows horses pulling a gun during World War I, Paris, France.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Paris

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Italian gun on Adriatic

Photograph shows journalists inspecting a 15 inch gun battery

along the Adriatic coast in Albania after World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)

1918 or 1919

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

canon armement gun weapon military ww1 1914 1918 guerre

French Siege gun

Photograph shows French soldiers in motor tractor which is pulling a large gun

along the road at the beginning of World War I.

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Wijtschate

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British & captured gun

Photograph shows British soldiers with a captured German field gun (7.7 cm FK 96 n.A.)

near Wytschaete, Belgium, during the Battle of Messines during World War I, on June 10, 1917.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Imperial War Museums website)

1917 June 10

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

watervliet canon armement gun weapon military ww1 1914 1918 guerre

16 - inch gun, Watervliet

between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

canon armement gun weapon military ww1 1914 1918 guerre

Photograph shows a de Bange 80 mm cannon in use during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

between 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Culver Academy Gun Squad

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Bulgar Big Siege Gun

between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Big naval gun

between 1918 and 1928

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)

canon armement gun weapon military ww1 1914 1918 guerre

Austrian big gun

Photograph shows soldiers gathered around and climbing

on a large cannon or howitzer mounted to a base on the ground.

1914 or 1915, c1915 Dec. 1.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

canon armement gun weapon military ww1 1914 1918 guerre

German field gun in action

German soldiers firing field gun during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Ypres

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English gun taken at Ypres

Photograph shows an English artillery gun taken during World War I at Ypres, Belgium.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

canon armement gun weapon military ww1 1914 1918 guerre

French Siege gun & motor tractor

Photograph shows French soldiers in motor tractor which is pulling a large gun

along the road at the beginning of World War I.

between 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Zeebruges

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Zeebrugge -- gun spoiled by Germans

Photograph shows 150mm gun of the Kaiserin Battery, east of Blankenberghe, Belgium,

which was destroyed by the Germans, October 24, 1918 during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016 and simular image on the Imperial War Museums website)

1918 Oct. 24

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Servian guns taken by Austrians

Photograph shows Serbian weapons captured by Austrian forces during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Pulling British gun into position

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Aiming 14" gun -- Sandy Hook

between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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GERMAN ORDNANCE. CAPTURED GERMAN GUN

1918

Harris & Ewing, photographer

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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