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This howitzer was captured with its gun crew on 16th August 1944 by the 8th Naval Beach Battallion and the 540th Army Engineers at St. Raphael on the French Riveria. Set in a strong casemated position at the left flank of one of the assault beaches, it was one of many guns unsuccessfully used by the German forces to prevent the American occupation of the town of St. Raphael during the Allied invasion of the southern coast of France.
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Naval Academy, Maryland · United States
