‘A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.’
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891)
Marines from the 3d Battalion, 12th Marines, man a 75-mm pack howitzer on Bougainville in their semi-reinforced position at Torokina Field in mid-December 1943. Note the captured Japanese flag.
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