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Description: | image: a battery of French 75mm field guns in action on the flat open ground near Soissons in the Aisne region. Three 75s
are arranged in a line, each placed next to a wheeled limber and manned by a team of French gunners. The French 75 was the workhorse of the
French artillery and symbol of the nation's martial strength, featuring regularly in popular art and propaganda material during the First
World War. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | French Army Weapons Military Personnel Landscape Uniforms Western Front Artillery First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Librairie Armand Colin, 103, Boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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