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Photo, Print, Drawing Loading of a 305 Cannon. Caricamento di un 305

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Title

  • Loading of a 305 Cannon.

Other Title

  • Caricamento di un 305

Summary

  • This photograph taken in 1918 shows Italian soldiers manning an artillery piece, identified as a 305-millimeter gun. Italian forces in World War I were equipped with the 305-millimeter, Model 1911 Austro-Hungarian siege howitzer, manufactured by the Skoda works in Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic). The Kingdom of Italy entered World War I on the side of the Triple Entente--Great Britain, France, and Russia--on April 26, 1915. Prior to the war, Italy was part of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, but it switched sides after Britain, France, and Russia promised it, in the secret Treaty of London concluded in April 1915, territorial acquisitions in Europe and a share of Germany's African empire in exchange for entering the war on the Allied side. In more than three years of fighting, chiefly on its northern border with Austria-Hungary, Italy lost more than 650,000 soldiers killed, 947,000 wounded, and 600,000 taken prisoner or missing in action. After the war, the Italians were bitterly disappointed by the meager gains they made at the Paris Peace Conference. Hard feelings toward their former allies contributed to political instability in Italy, the rise to power of Benito Mussolini, and Italy's later alignment with Nazi Germany in World War II.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1918.

Headings

  • -  Italy
  • -  1918
  • -  Artillery (Weaponry)
  • -  Cannons
  • -  Forts and fortifications
  • -  Soldiers
  • -  Weapons
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph ; black-and-white.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Pierluigi Scolè, "War Losses (Italy)," in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, edited by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson. http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_finance_italy. External
  • -  Original resource at: Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • World War I

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670889

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Loading of a 305 Cannon. Italy, 1918. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670889/.

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(1918) Loading of a 305 Cannon. Italy, 1918. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670889/.

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Loading of a 305 Cannon. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670889/>.