155 mm gun M1
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The 155 mm gun M1 was a 155 mm field gun developed and used by the United States military. Nicknamed "Long Tom", it was produced in M1 and M2 variants, later known as the M59. Developed to replace the
Long Tom in travelling position, US Army Ordnance Museum
A wooden mock-up of a modified GPF gun with equilibrators to increase maximal elevation and range, 1920
Long Tom at crew training in England
M2 during the Battle of Okinawa
Field gun
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A field gun is a field artillery piece. Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march, that when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in respons
155 mm gun M1
…The 155 mm gun M1 was a 155 mm field gun developed and used by the United States military. Nicknamed "Long Tom" (an appellation with a long and storied history in U.S. field and naval artillery…
A post-WWI French 105 mm field gun
German field guns captured by the NZEF displayed in London, 1918
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