Help to Id. US artillery

[ROLAND1369]

Here is an older black and white overhead showing the battery. current photos show it is completely overgrown today.

[Richard Anderson]

No problem. Enclosed is a map of the fort showing the location of the battery and other elements of the Fort should you desire to make a trip.

I think I need to buy a boat.

[Sturm78]

ROLAND1369 wrote
It is no imposition at any time. While the picture is poor in relation to the gun enough is visible to identify it as a 6 inch gun M1908 on Carriage Disappearing M1905MII. there were only 14 produced and, and with the exception of 4 mounted in the Harbor Defenses of Puget Sound, they were all mounted outside the Continental US in Panama, the Phillipines, and Hawaii. Enclosed is one of the Us mounted ones.

Thanks a lot for your help, ROLAND1369

Regards
Sturm78

[ROLAND1369]

One correction. I consulted my paper documents, specifically the RCW for Bty Harrison, and the carriages were M1905MI not MIIs. While there is a document authorizing the removal of guns and carriages in 1929 per the RCW they were still in place in 1933.

[ROLAND1369]

Anderson, if you decide to visit Ft Whitman, send me a message prior to going and I will send you a drawing of the battery showing room assignments.

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Any idea about this twin mount ? 40mm Bofors ?? I am not sure if WW2-era or postwar....

Image fron Watertown Arsenal archive
Sturm78

[ROLAND1369]

This is the ordnance of the M19 multiple motor gun carriage. It was a twin 40 MM bofors turret mounted on a modified M 24 Chaffee light tank chassis. I was produced from 1944 and saw limited service in Europe in the last year of the war as well as post war service in the Korean war. The ordnance was re used in the later M42 SPAA of the Viet Nam and Cold War.

[Sturm78]

Thank you very much for your help, ROLAND1369

A last question, for now...In the Watertown Arsenal archive webpage this image is marked as an 3in M1916 gun...but according to my information, the static version of the 3in (76mm) US gun was designated M1917....

Sturm78

[ROLAND1369]

I would say it is misnamed. I have only seen this weapon identified as an M1917 in all official documents.

[Sturm78]

Thanks for your confirmation, ROLAND1369

Regards
Sturm78

[T. A. Gardner]

Thank you very much for your help, ROLAND1369

A last question, for now...In the Watertown Arsenal archive webpage this image is marked as an 3in M1916 gun...but according to my information, the static version of the 3in (76mm) US gun was designated M1917....

Sturm78

That is a 3" M1917





It's one of several models of 3" AA Gun that was used with US coast defense fortifications.

https://cdsg.org/coast-artillery-armament/

[Sturm78]

Hi all

A rare image of an 240mm M1918 howitzer

Image from Ebay
Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

An image from Ebay. Real or fake guns ??

Sturm78

[Carl Schwamberger]

Probably a 37mm AT Gun M3. Without its gun shield. Wheels are not the usual pattern.

37mm AT Gun M3.png (384.52 KiB) Viewed 1493 times

[LineDoggie]

Hi all,

An image from Ebay. Real or fake guns ??

Sturm78

fake guns mocked to look like the M3 A/T gun