Troops pose on a Model B Ammunition truck manufactured by The Four Wheel Drive Corporation (FWD). In the background troops load a 12-inch Railway Mortar. The mortar sits on 12-inch Mortar carriage, M1896, which sits on a specially designed rail car. The coastal defense mortars or Seacoast Mortars were designed to fire 700-pound projectiles in a high arc and strike battleships and cruisers on their decks where armor plating is relatively thin. (THIS IMAGE MIGHT BE AT FORT TILDEN, NEW YORK)
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Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/07/1918
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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