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Through it all like horror runs the red resentment of the guns

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Title	Through it all like horror runs the red resentment of the guns
Publisher	[United States] : Underwood & Underwood, [between 1914 and 1918?]
Physical Description	1 photograph : black and white ; 8 cm x 8 cm
Summary	"Under the shelter of the embankment that runs alongside the plowed field you can see a battery of those monster field guns which by their incessant hammering on the German lines struck terror into the heart of the enemy and opened up the lanes that led to victory and peace. As you look at the muzzles poked over the edge of the ditch you can see the groups of attentive French soldiers who fed them, cared for them and loved them because of the tremendous part that they had in the battle that raged for years along the western front. These guns are along the Oise, a river in northern France more famous because of the blood of the soldiers that has been spilled along its banks than anything else. Night and day these thick throated fellows hurled their tons of metal and high explosive over and into the German lines. The shells weight over two hundred pounds and are filled with high explosive that sends a hurricane of splintered steel over the ground when they strike. They are the largest type of field gun that the French army used and were very difficult to move on account of their weight. In muddy soil and in a war of movement they would be practically useless."-Taken from back of resource
Notes	Title supplied on resource.; Date inferred from the range of the Hunter Collection (World War I, 1914-1918)
LC Subject Headings	Battles. Battlefields. Artillery. Artillery, Field and mountain. World War, 1914-1918. France.
Type	Image
Time Period	World War I (1914-1918)
Added Entry	Keystone View Company.
Personal Collection	WWI Hunter Collection
Call #	PHOTO 03341
Item #	703166
OCLC number	1027708670

Through it all like horror runs the red resentment of the guns

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