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Blown Breech

Photography Military posted on Mar 24, 2012
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A WW1 Artillery light gun captured from the Russians and ending up on the Normandy coast in WW2 , eventually destroyed by having it's breech block sabotaged . Cheers all

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T.Rex

6:01AM | Sat, 24 March 2012

Oh, MY! Who sneezed? The Jolly Green Giant? Takes an awfully big sneeze to cause this kind of damage! Thanks for posting this unique photo. VERY rare to see something like this. Considering the breech is the strongest part of the gun, I wonder how this is done? Keep up the good work! :-)

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blinkings

11:56AM | Sat, 24 March 2012

It least it now stops the local scallywags from shooting it at each other!!!!!!

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Tholian

12:04AM | Sun, 25 March 2012

Now that is something that you wanted to be nice and far from when it happened.


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