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Varennes en Argonne

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Battery of 155 mm howitzers firing on retreating Germans, Varennes, France Argonne Advance 1918 NARA111-SC-23033-ac

Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Argonne

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American Coast Artillery men fire French 14 in. railway gun, Argonne Region 1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Fismes

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155 mm canon of Battery C, 2nd Bn., 55th Coast Artillery, 28th Div. near Fismes, France 8-29-18 NARA111-SC-022623-ac

Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Thierville sur Meuse

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14 in. Naval railway gun, Thierville, Meuse, France 10-29-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Belleville sur Meuse

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One of 3 Railway naval guns assisting in advance on Verdun. Belleville, Meuse France 10-22-18 NARA111-SC-28364-ac

Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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German Battery in Galicia

Photograph shows German soldiers with gun battery in Galicia (Eastern Europe) during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Bain News Service, publisher

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

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

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German field gun in action

German soldiers firing field gun during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Bain News Service, publisher

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

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

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Crowd of German civilians, including children,

surrounding a cannon which has a garland hanging from the muzzle

between 1914 and 1918

Stamped on back: Photo J.P. Böhm, Müchen, Karlstrasse Nr. 35

Forms part of the Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik

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

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Scene in a German battery as an explosion kills horses in foreground;

in background soldiers continue to load shells into a cannon and carry on with their work

Photograph is a reproduction of a painting by Oskar Merté, 1924.

Stamp on back: Landesverband d. ehem. K. B. Schw. Urt., 1923.

Handwritten notation indicates that the painting is in the Armee Museum, Munich.

Forms part of the Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik

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

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Scene from George Kleine's "European armies in action"

A German field battery in action.

Photograph showing German soldiers firing cannons.

c1914 September 14.

Kleine, George, copyright claimant

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

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Austrian siege gun in Belgium

Photograph shows the barrel segment of a Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 howitzer gun.

The Austro-Hungarian Army loaned 8 of these guns to the German army in August, 1914

and they were used in destroying Belgian fortifications at Liege and other locations.

 (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

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Warsaw

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German Artillery before Warsaw

Photograph shows German soldiers near Warsaw, Poland during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

1915 April 30

Bain News Service, publisher

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

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German battery in action

Photograph shows German soldiers with artillery caisson during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)

between ca. 1915 and 1918

Bain News Service, publisher

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

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Campaign in German E. Africa

Photograph shows African soldiers with cannons and European officers

during the East African Campaign during World War I.

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

Bain News Service, publisher

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

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British guns bombard Germans

Photograph shows three 8 inch howitzers of 39th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA),

firing from the Fricourt-Mametz Valley during the Battle of the Somme,

August 1916 during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on the Imperial War Museums website)

1916 August

Bain News Service, publisher

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

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Unidentified German soldiers in uniform with cannon

1916

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

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Unidentified German soldiers in uniform with cannon

1916

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

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MILITARY TRAINING. LOADING BIG GUN

1917 or 1918

Harris & Ewing, photographer

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

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MILITARY TRAINING. LOADING BIG GUN

1917 or 1918

Harris & Ewing, photographer

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

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A British Trench Mortor in Action on the Western Front.

October 1917

Photographer: American Press Association

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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