Canon de 155 mm GPF
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The Canon de 155 Grande Puissance Filloux modèle 1917 was a WWI-era French-designed 155 mm gun used by the French Army and the United States Army during the first half of the 20th century in towed and
155 mm GPF gun in travel position at US Army Ordnance Museum
US gun and crew, France 1918
Coast defence gun on Panama mount, Garden Island, Western Australia, 1943
At Fort de la Pompelle near Reims, France
Pointe du Hoc
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La Pointe du Hoc is a promontory with a 35-metre cliff overlooking the English Channel on the northwestern coast of Normandy in the Calvados department, France.
Canon de 155 mm GPF
…in sites on the northern French beaches. A battery of six of these guns near four empty emplacements for larger guns was the cause of the actions at Pointe du Hoc in June 1944. Australia…
A 15.5 cm K 418(f) gun, of the type used in the Pointe du Hoc battery, is preserved at the Atlantic Wall on Jersey.
Pre-invasion bombing of Pointe du Hoc by 9th Air Force A-20 Havoc bombers
Rangers from 2nd Ranger Battalion demonstrate the rope ladders they used to scale Pointe du Hoc
Rangers departing Weymouth, UK enroute to Pointe de Hoc