SURVIVING GUN FILE
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USA |
 Light Artillery |
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Contribution : Bernard Plumier |
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Location : USA Aberdeen, MA Aberdeen Proving Ground Ordnance Museum |
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The panel says this gun was the first to shoot in the Aberdeen Proving Ground after it has been founded in 1908. |
Rear view. The breech is an interruped screw breech, very different from the classical Krupp et Rheinmetall breechblocks. |
Breech markings : "3 inch US - FIELD - Model 1902". Sur Carriage : "Nr 124 - Model of 1902 - RHEINISCHE M.W. A.M. FABRIK - 1904" |
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