BL 7.2-inch howitzer
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The BL 7.2-inch howitzer was a heavy artillery piece used by the British Army throughout the Second World War.
7.2-inch howitzer of 51st Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery. France, September 1944.
7.2 in howitzer Mk 6, on the US M1 carriage. Rhine crossing, 1945.
British 7.2 inch howitzers France Feb 1940 IWM F 2507
The British Army in North west Europe 1944 45 B9964
The BL 8-inch howitzer Marks VI, VII and VIII were a series of British artillery siege howitzers on mobile carriages of a new design introduced in World War I. They were designed by Vickers in Britain
BL 7.2-inch howitzer
…British Army throughout the Second World War. In 1940 the British Army concluded that the only heavy howitzer available to it, the First World War-era BL 8-inch howitzer, had insufficient range for the conditions of the Second World War. As a stopgap the decision was made to re-line the barrels to a smaller calibre and…
US-built version of Vickers BL 8-inch howitzer Mk 6 outside the War Museum in Helsinki, Finland
Mk VI that has slid off-road behind a Holt 75 artillery tractor, WWI
Mk 8 in WWI camouflage paint at the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa
Gun on Vickers firing platform, and limber, gun and platform being towed