Wham! A Shell froma 105-mm Infantry Howitzer Speeds after Retreating Nazis
This gun crew is opening up on the Germans near Carentan, Normandy, as Yank troops burst from the penninsulat to drive eastward toward Paris. More effective than the famous 75-mm of World War I is this mobile artillery piece, imporant element of an infantry regiment's fire power.
From a 1944 article in National Geographic.
M101.
M-101 good.
M-102 better.
I guess the JAG lawyer telling them it’s ok to pull the lanyard isn’t in the frame.
That is the airborne M3 105mm howitzer, not an M101. The M101 was much larger, had an overbarrel recuperator tube, and was the standard medium howitzer in US service.