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Post by sherri on Jul 29, 2017 9:26:00 GMT
Just working on my album (yes, still. Had another major problem, the whole book had to be abandoned as it developed a glitch where it loaded in 400 extra unwanted pages (with a photo on each) but would not let me delete any. Luckily, I still had an earlier version I could revert to & I had a brainwave before abandoning the first book-I took screenshots of each double page (the real ones, not the unwanted extras) & did a cut & paste of text, spaced as it was in book. Helping me fast track.
But I am adding a page & don't know if these guns have any official names. I don't know what to label them except big guns. I figure daddyo may know what they are.
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Post by DADDY O on Jul 30, 2017 12:51:55 GMT
Not quite sure Sherri. The top is a cannon, which I doubt belonged to any of the Allied Troops (too heavy to haul around). The Germans used a "Paris Cannon" to fire shells at the City of Paris (hence the name). It had a range of close to 100 miles. The Germans also used "Rail Cannons" that they hauled around on train tracks.
The bottom photo is a gun turret from a tank. A lot of the shrouding around the gun has been removed, so it is difficult to guess the origins of it, except I would think it was an allied tank where the turret was removed from a destroyed body.
Are these your Dad's photos. and if so, was he in Europe? It would help to know the geographical areas of the photos.
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Post by DADDY O on Jul 30, 2017 13:43:15 GMT
BTW - I forgot to mention.......it only took 42 rounds from the Paris Cannon to get the Frogs to surrender.......and not just Paris but the whole damn country.
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Post by sherri on Jul 30, 2017 22:40:01 GMT
Daddyo, it would only take one or two rounds to get me to surrender or run the other way! Then again, I have 54% West European DNA, quite a bit from France I suspect, so my sympathies are with them.
Thanks for your help with the names. I did think canon but it seemed too old fashioned a term somehow & I wondered if it could be something else. I would never in a million years have thought of gun turret from a tank though, never.
The top photo is from Subic Bay, which is Luzon, Philippines. dad never went anywhere near Europe, his time in the navy in WW2 & later was spent mainly around places such as Subic Bay/Manila/New Guinea/Brunei/Balikapapan/various parts of Borneo/Solomon Islands/Okinawa/Japan in the peacekeeping force.
Dad didn't take that top photo, it looks to be a navy photo of some sort as it is on thicker cardboard than the other photos.
Second photo is dad's own photo & I suspect it is Manus Island. It is stuck on the same double page spread of the album as another Manus Isles photo that is labelled.
That one is also dad's photo & labelled Manus Isles (Admiralty) & to me, the topography looks similar. Trees/hills etc. Makes me wonder if the sea photo was as they approached & the land photo taken after they landed-which is the order they are in the album. They must have been taken in Feb 1945 as I looked up the history of the Hobart, which was his ship.
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Post by sherri on Jul 30, 2017 22:47:43 GMT
PS The top photo of the canon has a printed bit on the back (it isn't stuck in the album) and it says not for publication but I figure this long after the war ended, we should be safe. You can sort of see the difference too. Top photo is so clear. Poor old dad, a lot of his shots are slightly blurry or have faded over time.
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Post by DADDY O on Aug 5, 2017 3:48:31 GMT
After a little research, and knowing where the photo was taken, the top photo is a 203mm USA Howitzer Cannon based at Subic Bay. It was used, along with aircraft bombings, in the battle for Manilla. Manilla was virtually destroyed during this action. Here's a better photo of it. Still researching the bottom photo.
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Post by DADDY O on Aug 5, 2017 4:06:36 GMT
BTW, your last photo of Manus Island was also known as Australia's Guantanamo.......meaning it was a WWII Concentration camp that the Aussies ran.
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Post by sherri on Aug 5, 2017 9:24:25 GMT
Thanks, daddyo. To say I am amazed is an understatement. I thought you might know roughly what the name of such a gun was but no way on earth did I think you would be able to tell me exactly what cannon it was. In fact I thought it would be long gone & there would have been so many around no one would have known about their movements or what was used where etc
Instead, it looks to be in much the same spot. Just amazing. So it was probably used them by the allies in the fight for Manila.
Thanks again. Great information.
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Post by sherri on Aug 7, 2017 1:20:31 GMT
Most satisfactory, I have been able to label them in the album, instead of just big gun, I have changed it to gun turret from a tank. And howitzer cannon.
My sister will be impressed! Just wondering if I should confess I had help or let her think I did all the research. Probably end up telling her. Thanks, daddyo for the help.
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Post by DADDY O on Aug 8, 2017 10:50:35 GMT
Never tip your hand. Just gather info and use it as you want to.
I'm still not sure about the turret, but I'll figure it out......may take a week or two.
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Post by sherri on Aug 9, 2017 6:09:30 GMT
If the photo was Manus island as I am 99& sure it was, I'm guessing you're right and it is an allied tank top. It did look as if it had been hit with some bullets.
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