SURVIVING GUN FILE

Contribution :

Bernard Plumier

Dick Pope

Location :

USA

Boalsburg (PA)

Pennsylvania Wars Memorial

The gun is integrated into a nice memorial, close to the museum. The tube has Prussian arms engraved. The breech markings are covered with a thick paint layer, but the date 1914 can hardly be read.

One can observe unusual modifications, such as steel wheels designed for use on rails, and a strange apparatus at the end of the tail over the spade.

These modifications, and the memorial plate of the small monument close to, indicating the cross it supports has been offered by the village of Montblainville (55 - Meuse - France) near Varennes en Argonne let us think this captured gun might be a bunker gun from the position "Blinkstelle Brunhild".