M12 155mm Gun Motor Carriage (GMC self-propelled); Total 100 built.

Move on its own

U.S. Artillery in action during the winter of 1944-45.

Ardennes - Battle of the Bulge

The crew of a105 mm Howitzer, Battery B., 33rd Field Artillery with the weapon set up in an Arabic mud-block hut for firing in defense of the Kassserine Pass, North Africa; February 20, 1943.

Set on a strategic target

Soldiers of 141st Infantry Regiment, US 36 Infantry Division use a FlaK M31(r) anti-aircraft gun, captured near Offendorf, Germany, to fire directly on German positions on the opposite side of Rhine river. The gun is missing its scope which is why the aiming is done through its barrel.

Captured Anti-aircraft Gun

Artillerymen of the US 2nd Infantry Division fire 105mm M3 howitzer at targets in Brest, Brittany, North-Western France; July, 1944.

Artillery in action

The crew of an American M7 self-propelled gun named Bronx Bomber ("Priest") fires smoke shells for target designation for fighter-bombers, in France; June 12, 1944.

Firing smoke spotter shells

A forward observer from the 612th Field Artillery Battalion calls in artillery fire on the Japanese positions along the Burma Road; Burma, January 19, 1945.

FAB observer

An American crew of a 57mm M1 antitank cannon from the 152nd Infantry Regiment is firing at the Japanese near the city of Marikina, 2 miles east of Manila in the Philippines; 1945.

Many rounds have been fired

Commander of the US 1st Army, Lt. Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley (02/12/1893 - 04/08/1981) fires a 155mm Long Tom cannon in honor of US Independence Day, in France; July 4, 1944.

Fireworks to honor Fourth of July

A 5-ton truck is towing a 155mm howitzer stuck in a water filled hole, 55 miles north of Lashio, Burma; February 15, 1945.

Howitzer stuck in a hole

Soldiers from Battery A, 486th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion,
with souvenir German flag in January, 1945.
  Kneeling, from left: Buck Dubee, Dick Goodie, and Walter Stone. Standing are Chet Stopyra and Fred Snyderman. 
  The M15 half-track behind them carried a revolving turret with a 37mm cannon and two .50 cal. machine guns. 
  Although originally designed for anti-aircraft use, the M15 also proved to be effective against enemy ground personnel and vehicles.

After Battle of the Bulge

Men of the 578th Field Artillery Battalion (attached to US 90th Infantry Division) emplace a captured German gun in preparation for firing on Germans trapped in the Harlange Pocket, northern Luxembourg, 5 miles south-east of Bastogne, Belgium; Battle of the Bulge, January 11, 1945.

Captured from the Germans

A burning jeep most probably sustained a direct hit from a German mortar shell. German incoming fire was very active in the village of Nothum, Luxembourg, after it was occupied by US Forces. The GIs are from the 3rd Battalion of the 104th Infantry Regiment, US 26th Infantry Division; Battle of the Bulge, January 10, 1945.

Direct hit on jeep

Men from Battery "B" of the 578th Field Artillery Battalion fire an 8-inch howitzer (nick-named "Big Mama") outside the hamlet of Neunhausen, Luxembourg, 10 miles south-east of Bastogne, Belgium, in support of the US 90th Infantry Division advance in the Doncols, Luxembourg area.
   It shows the typical hilly terrain, encountered in Luxembourg's Ardennes forest. Steep valleys and deep gorges made cross-country movement difficult for foot troops; Battle of the Bulge, January 15, 1945.

Bring out Big Mama

An American 8 inch howitzer M1 is shelling Japanese positions on Luzon Island in the Philippines, in the Ipo Dam area, about 10 miles north-east of Manila. The crew nicknamed the piece "Comanche", written on the side of the barrel; March, 1945.

Put the big gun to use

 An American 155-mm field howitzer M1 fires on German troops in Normandy, France; June, 1944.

At the moment of recoil

Soldiers of the 19th Field Artillery Battalion, 5th Infantry Division, man their gun under a snow-covered camouflage net near the commune of Haller, eastern Luxembourg, close to the German border; January, 1945.

Action about to warm up

Gunners of "D" battery, 733rd Field Artillery Battalion (USA) set up a PaK 43 88-mm anti-tank gun, captured from the German Wehrmacht, into combat firing position in the vicinity of the city of Metz, north-eastern France; September, 1944. 

Captured PaK 43

US Artillerymen towing a 155-mm M1 gun, nicknamed "Long Tom" on the hazardous roads of Sicily, Italy to a new firing position; August 1943.

Big gun on narrow Sicilian road

Artillerymen of the 76th US Field Artillery battalion with an 87-mm British-made QF25 pounder Mk. II gun at one of the combat positions...
   The 2nd Infantry Division was one of the American units that received 25-pounders to compensate for losses taken in the Ardennes in Belgium.   

GIs with a 25 pounder

US 3rd Army soldiers roll a 57mm M1 anti-tank gun through a street into firing position in one of the towns on the Saar Front; France, 1944.

Getting an anti-tank gun ready

US M2 90 mm gun crew in action near Vierville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France; June, 1944.

Shelling German positions

Artillerymen of the US 1st Army shelling German positions with an M3 105mm howitzer in the Wenau Forest, east of the city of Aachen, Germany; November 1944.  


M3 Howitzer in action

Gunners of "D" battery, 733rd Field Artillery Battalion, 95th Infantry Division, set up a captured German PaK 43 (88-mm) anti-tank gun at a combat position in the area of the city of Metz, France; September 1944. 

To be used against former owners

Gun crew of the ‘Black Widow’, a 90 mm anti-aircraft gun dug in outside Bastogne, Belgium, about to fire at enemy plane sighted in area. Battery B 217th Bn (Radar) Bastogne; January 11, 1945. 

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