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Kerr Eby
Dawn, the 75's Follow Up, 1919
Eby shows an American field artillery team advancing at dawn -- presumably after a nocturnal barrage that left ruins in its wake -- towing a seventy-five-millimeter field gun and its munitions-saddled caisson. Simply called the "75," the French-made cannon fired more than fifteen shrapnel shells per minute and reached targets up to five-miles afield. In the late stages of the war, most US Army batteries adopted this highly accurate gun for dispersing lethal chemical agents, including mustard gas. |