Hey everybody,
It's been insanely busy in my neck of the woods. One thing I had going last week was a two day trip down to Camp Lejeune for a conference. While I was there, I went to my old stomping grounds of 10th Marines - the East Coast artillery regiment (of 2nd Marine Division.) They have a nice gun park there and here are some pictures:
An M114 155mm Howitzer (the Pig)
My old gun (I say old because it has now been completely replaced in the USMC by the M777 155mm) the M198 155mm:
A M107 175mm gun (as opposed to howitzer - higher velocity and lower angle of fire):
The rare M99 107mm "Howtar". This was a cross between the carriage of a 75mm Pack Howitzer and a 4.2 inch mortar:
The afore-mentioned M-30 107mm (4.2 inch - the "four-deuce") mortar:
See more angles of these and others here.
Holy cow, those are some darned big GUNS! I love the angle of the second image, with that BIG nose reaching out to scare the hell out of ya. Nice shots!!
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
Great pictures Major T.,
My favorite is the old 155mm in picture # 1. It reminds me of the old newsreels of USMC gun crews pounding away at the Japanese up in the caves during WWII.
Dogdaddy 1
Thanks for the pictures, Todd. As usual, they are very well done,
There is one of my favorites ;
Vee 
Under every white cross of American Cemetery of Colleville (Normandy), sleeps a piece of Freedom
