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

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. 