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SURVIVING GUN FILE (# 864)
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France
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Heavy power artillery
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Contributor :
Bernard Plumier      http://www.passioncompassion1418.com
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Location :
USA Aberdeen, MD Aberdeen Proving Ground - Ordnance Museum
Coordinates :
Lat : 39.49000 / Long : -76.14120
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General comments on this surviving gun :
This extraordinary weapon used to be part of the rich collections of the Aberdeen Proving Ground Ordnance Museum, MD, in an increasingly poor condition. It has been nicely restored when transferred to Fort Sill
Identical items in the same location :
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This unique survivor is showned without its self-propelled tracked front-end |
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Historic and technical information
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Denomination :     194 GPF affût chenillé St Chamond | Origin :       ( Saint Chamond)             ( Etablissements et Arsenaux de Puteaux )           | ||||
Historic context :
With the entry of the USA into the war and the gradual arrival of its large numbers of troops on the Western Front, the Allies devised plans for a future final offensive. Anticipating a resumption of the war of movement after the breakthrough, but also the likely existence of powerful enemy entrenchments, France wanted to equip itself with powerful and highly mobile heavy artillery. The range of the new 155 GPF gun was deemed insufficient for these missions, so in May 1917 Lieutenant-Colonel Filloux of the Puteaux arsenals proposed fitting the heaviest tube it could support to the gun's revolutionary twin-arrow mount. He designed a 194 mm tube with a length of 33.5 calibres, which was to be re-bored to 220 mm after wear and tear. |
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