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A battery of French Rimailho 155mm Howitzers, a gun capable of delivering up to 15 rounds per minute. With a range of 6,500 yards, it was obsolete by 1916.
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La Guerre 1914-1915 Artillerie lourde française - Batterie de 155 Rimailho
104 P.P. Paris French heavy artillery - 155 Rimailho's battery.
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Message dated July 18, 1915(?), and written in three directions. The writer had "le plaisir de voir 28 aeros française qui revenaient de chez les boches" - the pleasure of seeing 28 French planes returning from the Boche.

A battery of French Rimailho 155mm Howitzers, a gun capable of delivering up to 15 rounds per minute. With a range of 6,500 yards, it was obsolete by 1916.

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La Guerre 1914-1915 Artillerie lourde française - Batterie de 155 Rimailho



104 P.P. Paris French heavy artillery - 155 Rimailho's battery.



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Message dated July 18, 1915(?), and written in three directions. The writer had "le plaisir de voir 28 aeros française qui revenaient de chez les boches" - the pleasure of seeing 28 French planes returning from the Boche.

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"A battery of French Rimailho 155mm Howitzers, a gun capable of delivering up to 15 rounds per minute. With a range of 6,500 yards, it was obsolete by 1916."

Image Text

La Guerre 1914-1915 Artillerie lourde française - Batterie de 155 Rimailho



104 P.P. Paris French heavy artillery - 155 Rimailho's battery.



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Message dated July 18, 1915(?), and written in three directions. The writer had "le plaisir de voir 28 aeros française qui revenaient de chez les boches" - the pleasure of seeing 28 French planes returning from the Boche.

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Sunday, February 28, 1915

Year

1915

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