SURVIVING GUN FILE
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Germany |
 Light artillery |
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Contribution : Florian Garnier Alain Bohee Guy Francois |
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Location : France Hennezel (88) Musee du Hameau de Clairey | >
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The plate makes erroneously states that this gun is a Austrian 88mm M 1875, although this is a German 9cm C73 n°1818, manufactured in 1875. |
This will perhaps launch a new debate over thes famous 'zim-boom', supposedly Austrian 88mm guns often cited in Poilus' memories, but whose presence on the western front in 1915 makes no sense... |
This confusion could comfort the ideas of the experts who think, like Guy Francois and me, that the numerous French veterans who explained in their memories how they feared the terrifying effects of the "Austrian 88" guns were in fact talking of these old obsolete German FussArtillerie guns, used from short distances. |
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