In this update we have added the various artillery pieces that are displayed on the grounds of the Canadian Fort Rodd-Hill in Esquimalt, BC. The guns that were added are US 90mm M1A2 Anti-Aircraft Gun, British 13-pdr RML Field Gun and British 12pdr QF Coast Defense Gun.
Here are the last albums from the, now unfortunately defunct, Military Museum of Southern New England, that used to be located in Danbury, CT. The albums are Ba-64 and M8 Greyhound armored cars, SdKfz 302 Goliath demolition vehicle and a 10cm Nebelwerfer 35 mortar.
Here are four artillery pieces from four different countries and three continents. From Auckland, NZ comes the British RML 7″ 7-ton Coast Defense Gun displayed near Auckland War Memorial Museum, from Paris, France we’ve added the French 75mm Mle 1897 Field Gun located in Musée de l’Armée, from US here is the US 81mm M1 Mortar from now defunct Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT and finally from Canada – British Q.F. 40 mm Mk.1 Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun at Fort Rodd-Hill in Esquimalt.
Here are four different artillery pieces – the US 13″ Mortar from White Point Gardens in Charleston, SC, the British 1″ Nordenfelt gun photographed in the Tower of London, the 4.7″ Armstrong Coast Defense Gun currently residing in Newport, RI and the Nebelwerfer 41 15-cm photographed during an even in Richmond, CA.
Here is a set of photos taken at Fort Hancock in NJ. We’ve posted the photos of the remains of the coast defense batteries from there as well as US 6in Model 1900 coast defense gun and MIM-3 Nike Ajax missile on display at the fort grounds.
Today’s artillery post is about US artillery photographed at the South Carolina Military Museum in Columbia, SC. The artillery pieces are a US 6-pdr Battalion Gun, a US 3″ Ordinance Rifle, a US 3″ Model 1905 Field Gun and a US 3″ M1897A2 Field Gun.
Here are four new artillery albums from two different countries. Two guns from the France are the German 7.7cm Feldkanone 96 and the Soviet 120-HM 38 120mm Mortar, both from the Musée de l’Armée in Paris. The two from New Zealand were photographed in Auckland – British 64pdr RML Coast-Defense Gun and Japanese 13.2mm Type 93 Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun from Auckland War Museum.
Here are four different artillery pieces from different places in the world. From Batey ha-Osef Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel we have a Soviet S-23 180mm Gun, from Musee des Blindes in Saumur, France we posted a German 2cm Flakvierling 38 Anti-Aircraft Gun, from Sydney, Australia we added the photos of the German 105mm SK/L40 Naval Gun that was removed from the wreck of SMS Emden and finally from Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT in US comes a US 106mm M40 Recoilless Rifle.
Today we’ll have a naval themed update from Battleship Cove in Massachusetts. While the main ships from there have already been posted to our gallery, here are four smaller items from there – Soviet Tarantula class missile boat USNS Hiddensee, Higgins LCM(3) landing craft, 570mm Mark13 Mod 1 Torpedo and a US 20mm/70 Oerlikon anti-aicraft gun.
Continuing to dig through the archives of the un-posted stuff here are four albums done a number of years ago at MVCC Camp Delta. The albums are – M35 with M105 bed, Dodge WC19, GMC Canada 1942 India Pattern LRDG Truck and M55 .50 caliber Quad-mount.
Posted four different artillery albums from four different countries. From Russia, posted the Tsar Pushka, photographed in Moscow’s Kremlin, from Belgium added the 75mm Cockerill-Nordenfeld Mle 1896 Field Gun seen in Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, from Australia came the British QF 25pdr Mark II Field Gun photographed in a town of Cann River and finally from US added the 8″ Rifled Dahlgren Cannon on a Naval Mount that was found at Patriots Point Museum in Charleston SC.
Posted four different vehicles from Israeli museums – PzKpfw IVG, PT-76, M52 and AT-L light artillery prime-mover.
Posted four different albums of naval subjects from all over the US. From Patriot’s Point in Charleston SC added the destroyer USS Laffey DD-724 and it’s 5″/38 Mark 38 Twin Dual-Purpose Mount. From Portland, OR posted the photos of Tugboat Portland and from Morro Bay, CA added the album for DSRV-2 Avalon.
Posted four different artillery pieces from four different locations – US 10″ Rodman Cannon on the Model 1861 Barbette Mount from West Black Point Battery in Fort Mason, San Francisco, Belgian 57mm Cockerill-Nordenfeld Mle 1888 Fortress Gun from Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, Belgium, US 155mm M1 Howitzer from Fort Sill and Soviet 76mm Kurchevsky Model 1935 Recoilless Gun from Victory Park Museum in Moscow, Russia.
Here are four albums of the different subjects from London’s Imperial War Museum. We’ve posted the photos of German 8.8cm Flak 18 Barrel on a Flak 36 Mount, British BL 15 inch Mk I Naval Guns, Reuters Armored Land Rover and SSB “Maiale” (Pig) Manned-Torpedo.
Posted four different albums from MCAS Miramar Air Show 2014 – 155mm M777A2 Field Gun, Navy SEAL Desert Patrol Vehicle, Special Boat Team 12 Craft and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
Added a bit of the US history to the gallery with the photos of the Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC and the guns that are on display within the fort – Confederate 42pdr Rifle on the Casemate Carriage, US 42pdr Seacoast Gun Model 1845 and US 8″ (200pdr) Parrott Rifle Barrel.
A little bit of everything from Imperial War Museum visit from 2014 – FV1611A Humber Pig Mk.2, British 13pdr Néry Field Gun and Clark Airborne CA-1 Dozer.
We’ve added three naval themed albums from the Australian National Maritime Museum located in Sydney, they are destroyer HMAS Vampire (D11), submarine HMAS Onslow and a British 40mm L60 Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun in a Mk.III Mount.
Updated the artillery section by adding three new albums photographed at Musée de l’Armée in Paris. We’ve added the photos of the French Canon de 75 modèle 1897, the US 105mm M2A2 Field Gun and the US M2 60mm Mortar.
