Q 2752. 9.2-inch railway gun of the Royal Marine Artillery firing at Woesten 23rd August 1917.
Aug 17 1919 US 14"/50 caliber railway gun firing https://t.co/CXuUpRsDG4
Observation Of Fire, Three Royal Artillery observation officers survey battery fire on a battlefield from a trench in the foreground.One officer sits in the trench using a field telephone whilst the...
Monday August 12th was the day nominated by the Germans to be Eagle Day, Adlertag. For the people of Dover and Folkestone it began with a new form of enemy action that was to plague the two front-line coastal towns for more than four years - the firing of shells from cross-Channel guns. On this day two people in Dover were killed and three seriously injured. This photograph was taken by the Germans and shows the first round of hundreds of shells which were fired from Pas de Calais.
Part 12 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II
5 APRIL 1968 - RELIEF OF KHE SANH (Operation PEGASUS) - #VietnamWar U.S. and S. Vietnamese forces, led by the Army's 1st CAV DVN), began OPN PEGASUS / LAM SON 207 to relieve the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh, which was under siege by People's Army of N. Vietnam since 21 Jan.
Launched in 1942, commissioned in 1943, the USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship of a class of four battleships – the largest and last big gun vessels built by the United States. Today, 70 year…
We take a closer look at a popular tactical lever gun, the Marlin 336 Dark (available in limited quantity), the 1894 and 1895.
