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The 37th Iowa Infantry was organized at Muscatine, Iowa, and mustered in for three years of Federal service on December 15, 1862.The regiment was unique in that it was composed entirely of men not liable for military service.
The Cannone da 149/40 was a heavy gun which served with Italy during World War II. It was intended to replace the obsolete Cannone da 149/35 A, but the small numbers produced prevented that.
A Mountain artillery unit with a 65/17 modello 13 gun on Monte Padon firing at Austrian positions on the Sass di Mezdi German Datasheet. The 65 mm gun was first accepted into service with Italian mountain troops in 1913, and it served with them throughout World War I.
The Cannone da 149/35 A was a heavy gun which served with Italy during World War I and World War II. It was already an old-fashioned weapon when introduced around 1900. It lacked a recoil system of any kind and could not traverse.
The Cannone da 75/27 modello 06 was a field gun used by Italy during World War I and World War II.It was a license-built copy of the Krupp Kanone M 1906 gun. [3] It had seats for two crewmen attached to the gunshield as was common practice for the period.
The cannon was relatively cheap to produce – the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom estimated that each cannon cost approximately £167. [ 7 ] (2010 : £12,645). Over 2000 were cast before 1861 [ 8 ] and its exceptional durability, range and accuracy earned it a reputation as the finest smoothbore cannon ever made.
The Canon de 65 M modele 1906 where M stands for "montagne", or briefly 65 mm Mle 1906 where "mle" stands for "modèle", was a French mountain gun which entered service with the régiments d'artillerie de montagne in 1906 and was one of the first soft-recoil guns in service.
The Cannon of Adamello is a 149/23 that can still be visited on the Cresta Croce, in the Adamello Range, where it had been brought to support operations in the mountains. The cannon arrived in Temù from the Edolo railway station on February 9, 1916, and was transported by road to Malga Caldea at an altitude of 1,580 m (5,180 ft). From there it ...