A crew of an M2A1 105-mm howitzer of the 33rd field artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, firing at German positions near the city of Erftstadt, about 12 miles south-west of Cologne, Germany; March 3, 1945.

105-mm howitzer fire

834th anti-aircraft Artillery's twin machine guns and a 37-mm gun mounted on a half-track; the soldier standing holds a Thompson sub-machine gun. Okinawa, 1945.


Self-propelled AA artillery

A battery of 105 mm M2A1 howitzers in action during the battle for Luzon, the Philippines; January, 1945.