SURVIVING GUN FILE

Version Francaise

Germany

Fortress artillery

Re-inforced 105 mm fortress gun in an armoured turret

Contribution :

Patrick Corbon

Jean-Marie Balliet

WW1 artillery link

Location :

France

Mützig (67)

Feste Kaiser Wilhelm II.

The n°6 battery of the Mützig fortress, little concerned by the 1914 fights, but more violently at the end of WW2, is composed of 4 identical 4 pièces identiques de 10cm P.T. (verst.) turrets.

Detail on the tube re-inforcement to increase its resistance to shelling.