Historical Artillery Pieces

Depictions of various historical cannons and howitzers used in military settings, showcasing designs and test scenarios from the late 19th to early 20th century.

Armstrong 30.5 cm gun, mounted on la Soledad Bulwark. Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.
Armstrong 30.5 cm gun, mounted on la Soledad Bulwark. Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1883.
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City Point, Virginia (vicinity). Park of army wagon wheels. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 . United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865.
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240 MM gun , Artillery Weaponry, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Fort McAllister, on the Ogechee River, Georgia. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1880 - 1891. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. United States , History , Civil War, 1861-1865
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Lieutenant Colonel Stewart of Third Marines puts a sign on a captured 75mm Pack Howitzer. The howitzer was captured by "I" Company, Third Battalion, Third Marine Regiment on Dong Ha Mountain during the Vietnam War. Defense Department photo taken on July 23, 1968, in Dong Ha, Vietnam.
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16' BC , Armories, Ordnance industry, Arms & armament, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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14' RR mount , Armories, Ordnance industry, Arms & armament. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Looking at Destroyed Ordinance
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Anefo photo collection. Walcheren. 28 February 1946. Walcheren, Zeeland
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Grenade chestnut
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Artillery: cannons from the 19th century and earlier, Krupp's 10, 5 cm siege gun, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century.
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Decorative dynamic installation "MTS". Soviet Russian propaganda art.
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On Board The HMS "Rodney" During Coastal Defence Exercises By Sea, Land And Air - The 16 inch guns of the HMS "Rodney" elevated for firing position when off Portland.Redland (England) and Blueland, an imaginary country 600 miles away in the Atlantic were the "opposing forces" in the coastal defence exercise, in which land, sea and air services took part. July 16, 1937. (Photo by Tropical Press Agency Ltd.).
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Egyptian Army Try Out New Arms -- Egyptian troops firing one of the New Anti-Tank guns which have been proved useful in piercing the thickest target, during the demonstration. High officials of the Egyptian Army watched troops carrying out exercises with New Anti-Tank and Anti-Aircraft guns, during a demonstration at Rebeiki in the Desert near the Suez Canal. These modern guns are another step in the Great Modernisation of the Egyptian Army. February 20, 1939. (Photo by Keystone).
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1940S Wwii Era Big Artillery Railroad Gun Firing
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Old Gun of Beder Fort. Lala Deen Dayal (Indian, 1844 - 1905)
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Archduke Leopold Salvator inspected a grenade presentation.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Garoet. Surfision actions around Tjibatoe and Wanaradja. Soldier working on a Z.G. "Beachmaster '; a broadcaster on the roof of a vehicle. October 15, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies
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The British six-pounder gun: explanatory drawings. It was an efficient field and anti-tank gun of high velocity, used for example against Rommel's German army in the desert, Second World War. Date: 1942
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Engraving depicting a hydrogen generating machine used in the inflating of military balloons. Dated 19th Century
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Members of the 85th Division fire an M-101 105mm Howitzer for a training exercise. Base: Fort Mccoy State: Wisconsin (WI) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Ancient history. Battering ram. Siege weapon used to break open the masonry walls of fortifications or splinter their wooden gates. Engraving. Historia General de Espana by Father Mariana. Madrid, 1852.
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Latest type German submarine in N. September 5, 1939.
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Artillerie: Kanonen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert und früher, Gruson 5, 7 cm Schnellfeuerkanone L-30 in Kasemattlafette, digital restaurierte Reproduktion e...
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Dutch Gap, Virginia, vicinity. Sling for transporting big guns. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, Virginia, Dutch Gap.
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC S.R.O.I. Tjimahi. An overview of the arms room of the S.R.O.i. in Bandoeng. Japanese, English, American and German weapons can be found here to familiarize students with the different weapons .. September 1, 1948. Cimahi, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. KNIL - NETHERLANDS. Amsterdam. Departure from a detachment supplement calls from the colonial reserve. A final chat. March 6, 1936. Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Recorded weapons from the struggles on 15.5.1916. .
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Ammunition cart 38 cm HBH at the Cost Alta. Recorded in May 1916..
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Fire lines radar AA 3MK7 in position. This radar was used in the air cooling gun 90 mm.
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New Automatic Gun For U.S. 'Planes -- The new 20mm gun. A new automatic gun, the M 39, has been developed for use in the latest combat 'Planes of the U.S. Air Force. The new gun, with a 20mm bore, was the product of team-work among the air force, the army and private industry. May 11, 1954. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.)
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240 MM gun carriage , Arms & armament, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Mareuil-la-Motte, Oise, Picardie, France Piece of artillery of 75 arranged to shoot planes, and its staff , 1915 - Picardie - Stéphane Passet (French - Mareuil-la-Motte , Oise , Picardie , France Pièce d' artillerie de 75 disposée pour tirer sur avions , et son personnel). Military uniform, group portrait, cannon, front, hairy, artillery, man, army, Clothing, human beings, First World War, society, France, 75 piece arranged to shoot aircraft, and its staff
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6 cm grenade lackers m/1772 pcs. delivered to the artillery
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8.4 CM. faltkanon , Artillery Weaponry. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Photograph showing a 240mm long range gun being towed into position on the Allied Fifth Army front near Cassino, February 1944. Between January and May 1944 the town of Cassino and Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino were completely destroyed as the Allied Fifth Army attempted to push the occupying Nazi troops out of their strong defensive position in the area. Date: 1944
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The Civil War: Union soldiers manning cannon, c. 1860's.
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Firing Anti-Aircraft Gun
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Mortar 8.1 cm with base plate. The KL uses the affuit M4 shown here.
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Svetsmaskin Repr.
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Failure of 10 inch wire wound cannon , Armories, Ordnance industry, Ordnance testing, Cannons, Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center U.S.. Records of U.S. Army Operational
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Recorded Italy.Artilerie-Ammunition 29.1.18. .
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12/31/1937. Machine gun with a device, invented by a soldier of the 7th Brigade, which allows it to be made anti-aircraft.
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Royal Horse Artillery Demonstration At Aldershot: Remarkable pictures showing a shell actually leaving the barrel of a 3.7 Howitzer Gun, taken during the demonstration this morning. The Royal Horse Artillery this morning gave a demonstration at Aldershot, for the benefit of students at the Staff College, Camberley. February 4, 1938. (Photo by Keystone).
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Anti-tank mines: a deadly defensive weapon in mechanised warfare during the Second World War. Types of British and German land mines -- a desert minefield being laid, and in operation. Date: 1942
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Liberation Day, Cannon, War Equipment, Place de la Concorde, 20 October 1918, Paris, France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe
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A Honest John Unbraide Rocket on an International 6x6 5 TONS Truck M139D of 109 Veldartillerie department passes the Deignelpunt with O.A. H.M. Koningin Juliana and Z.K.H. Prince Bernhard during the Parade in Ede on the occasion of Liberation Day.
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Schwere deutsche Mörser, durch welche die Forts von Przemysl sturmreif beschossen wurden.. text. Postcards, Photographs. 1914 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. World War, 1914-1918 , Equipment and supplies , German, Artillery (Weaponry) , German
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Exercise. Sliding with machine gun on the F 3 ore. Man practice. Sliding with machine gun on the F 3 ore. Man at machine gun.
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Coastal gun on frame, France, ca 1870 / Küstengeschütz auf Rahmen, Frankreich, ca 1870, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.
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Alf Larsson as Nils Holgersson at a cannon outside Kalmar Castle.
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Italian ammunition. .
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Maxim machine gun, c1895. Artist: Anon.
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A close-up mechanism of a portable weapon of the Soviet Union of World War II, painted in a dark green color
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Maxim machine gun, c1895. Artist: Anon
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Multi-part diagram, showing the complex working systems of a short rifle, taking a Lee- Enfield Mark III magazine. Date: 1915
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Danger Watch Out For These -- If the circumstances hadn't been so tragic the joke of the week would have been "an Army Staff officer's" statement about warnings on unexploded shells. One child had been killed. seven injured, by the explosion of a shell they had found at Goodna. Said the officer: The public has been warned not to touch unexploded ammunition: they should report it immediately to Victoria Barracks. The warnings appeared in every advertisement of practice shoots. And there was the joke. Have You ever read an advertisement of practice shoots A recent one took 99 lines of small type. If you had the patience to read it (not one in a thousand would get a picture of what it all meant) you would wade through a mass of I words like a surveyor's logbook. March 08, 1943. (Photo by C. Mail).
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The V-2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, Vengeance Weapon 2), technical name Aggregat-4 (A4), was a short-range ballistic missile that was developed during the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. Commonly referred to as the V-2 rocket,
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Hancock's headquarters 1861. Photograph probably by G. H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tidewater area of Virginia during the time that Larkin Goldsmith Mead spent there with the Army of the Potomac as an artist for Harper's Weekly and making topographical drawings for Brig. Gen. William F. Smith in 1861 and 1862, Title from item, In album: Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, page 81, Digitized, 2014. Funding from The Center for Civil War Photography, Accession box no. DLC/PP-1975:071. Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886, Homes & haunts, Virginia, Langley, United States, Army, Facilities, Virginia, Langley, Military headquarters, Union, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Military camps, Union, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Caissons (Vehicles), Union, Virginia, Langley, 1860-1870, Unit
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MINECT.paravane.Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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The principal weapon in air fighting during the Second World War: aircraft machine guns. American, British, French, German and Italian machine guns, capable of firing 1000-1200 rounds per minute. The American long-barrel type 37mm shell gun, and the Hispano-Suiza moteur-canon. Date: 1940