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    The 6-inch gun M1897 (152 mm) and its variants the M1900, M1903, M1905, M1908, and M1 (a.k.a. T2) were coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major...
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    The 3.2-inch gun M1897 (81 mm), with its predecessors the M1885 and M1890, was the U.S. Army's first steel, rifled, breech loading field gun. It was the...
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    The 5-inch gun M1897 (127 mm) and its variant the M1900 were coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1897 and 1920...
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    The BL 6-inch gun Mark VII (and the related Mk VIII) was a British naval gun dating from 1899, which was mounted on a heavy travelling carriage in 1915...
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  • M1897 can refer to: Canon de 75 modèle 1897, a field gun (also 75 mm gun M1897 in US service) 5-inch gun M1897, a US coast artillery gun 6-inch gun M1897...
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    to be too complex, guns were mounted on low-angle M1892 or M1897 barbette carriages. The M1897 carriage was actually an "altered gun lift" carriage, functionally...
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    6"/30 caliber gun - includes 6"/40 caliber Mark 3 guns 6-inch gun M1897 - Army coast defense weapon of similar type and era BL 6 inch Mk XI naval gun...
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    The M1908 6-inch howitzer, officially the 6-inch Howitzer, Model of 1908, was the principal heavy howitzer piece of the U.S. Army prior to World War I...
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    The 3-inch gun M5 was an anti-tank gun developed in the United States during World War II. The gun combined a 3-inch (76.2 mm) barrel of the anti-aircraft...
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  • Thumbnail for Canon de 75 modèle 1897
    French 75 mm field gun during World War I and used it extensively in battle. The U.S. designation of the basic weapon was 75 mm Gun M1897. There were 480...
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  • lot of strength to the frame of the gun and it allowed the use of a 2+3⁄4 inch shell without the danger of the gun constantly jamming. The action could...
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    alongside the M1897 production started development of what was termed an "accelerated-fire gun", and Captain Charles B. Wheeler designed a 3-inch gun which allowed...
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    Logan's 6-inch Armstrong gun was removed and most likely transferred to Fort Adams. After the US entered World War I, Battery Gadsden's four 6-inch guns were...
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    machine guns and the single-barrel Maxim guns. By the end of the 19th century, many new designs such as the M1895 Colt–Browning and Hotchkiss M1897 were...
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    their carriage from the similar "balanced pillar" carriage of the 5-inch gun M1897, built by other manufacturers. Unlike the disappearing carriages of...
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    the balanced pillar for the 5-inch gun M1897 and the Driggs-Seabury masking parapet for the manufacturer's 3-inch gun M1898. However, these could only...
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    well as a field piece. It originated as the 3-inch gun M1913, which was soon modified to the 3-inch gun M1916, which was later altered to the subject...
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    and used the same range of 75x350R ammunition as the 75 mm field gun M1897. After the gun, which featured a 31-caliber barrel and a sliding block breech...
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  • 3-inch gun M1903 5-inch gun M1897 6-inch gun M1897 8-inch M1888 8-inch Mk. VI railway gun 10-inch gun M1895 12-inch coast defense mortar 12-inch gun M1895...
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    (Converted). The guns performed well in their new configuration and this experiment eventually led to the adoption of the 3.2-inch gun M1897. In 1903, more...
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    M1895, M1900 (254 mm) 8-inch gun M1888 (203 mm) 6-inch gun M1897, M1900, M1903 (152 mm) 5-inch gun M1897, M1900 (127 mm) 3-inch gun M1898, M1902, M1903 (76 mm)...
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    8-inch guns were an expedient conversion of carriages for Rodman guns to allow the modern 8-inch M1888 gun to be brought into service. The 6-inch and...
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    new program of construction added huge 16-inch gun batteries, as well as rapid-firing 6-inch and 90 mm guns (for use against motor torpedo boats) to many...
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  • inch Mk VII naval gun  United Kingdom World War I - World War II 152 6-inch gun M1897  United States 1897 — 1945 152 6"/50 caliber gun  United States World...
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  • Browning Auto-5 (Limited) Ithaca 37 Stevens M520-30 Stevens M620 Winchester M1897 Winchester M1912 Remington Model 10 Remington Model 11-48 Remington Model...
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  • Machine gun Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903 Naval artillery BL 6-inch gun Mk V (Coast defence gun) Edged...
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    Springfield. The cartridge was also used in the M1893, M1895, M1897, and M1900 Gatling guns. Though the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps had adopted limited numbers...
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  • refer to: M1908 pistol M1908 6-inch howitzer M1908 variant of the M1890 12-inch mortar M1908 variant of the M1897 6-inch gun M1908 variant of the M1903...
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    directions, but could only depress −6.5°. Firing the M61 armor piercing round, the gun could penetrate up to 3 inches (76 mm) of armor at 1,000 yards (910 m)...
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  • France. The pair of 5-inch guns of Battery Kelly were apparently remounted at Fort H. G. Wright until scrapped in 1919. The 6-inch guns appear to have arrived...
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