French ingenuity on the Somme front: netting draped with foliage to form an anti-aircraft screen over a heavy gun

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French ingenuity on the Somme front: netting draped with foliage to form an anti-aircraft screen over a heavy gun

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Kura Heritage Collections Online

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Showing a large field gun and its French crew on the Somme. The gun has been camouflaged with a large net supported by a framework of uprights and ridge poles and covered with evergreen foliage, to screen it from aerial reconnaissance by the Germans.

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Date created

1917-04-26

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Auckland Weekly News

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http://cdm20062.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/217446

Related subjects

World War, 1914-1918 / French Army / Field guns / Camouflage (Military science) / Soldiers / Nets / Trees

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