Monday, January 18, 2021

Italian Alpini with a 6000kgh cannon they have carried into the Alps. The gun is still there today and can be visited, albeit it is on top of a 3000 meter mountain.

 



8 comments:

  1. great find! Reminds me of this little tank https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/10/for-hundred-years-this-french-tank-has.html standing guard in Norway for 100 years

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  2. Here's the full story of the Italian cannon on Cresta Croce, a, 11,000 feet high mountain ridge, left there in WWI, in the forgotten White War, which was over annexing lands held by the Austro Hungarian empire, but inhabited by Italians https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/10/an-italian-cannon-still-stands-on.html

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  3. Wonder if that barrel had been changed over time? Sure looks shorter and bead-blasted..........

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  4. This cannon (correctly: a howitzer) can be found on Monte Adamello (3.554 m above sea level) in Northern Italy. http://www.moesslang.net/149g_haubitze_im_adamello.htm
    The North Italian Alps were frontline for more than three and a half years in one of the fiercest campaigns known in military history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_War
    Even today, more than hundred years after the cease-fire the mountains and glaciers of this high-alpine region relinquish great masses of military gear, weapons and ammunitions. http://www.moesslang.net/cevedale_3_kanonen.htm

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    1. Some more relicts of the high-alpine war front May 1915 - November 1918: http://www.moesslang.net/1_drehtag_global_warning.htm

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    2. Ii believe this was also on a segment of the TV show "Mysteries of the Abandoned".

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  5. Someone pulled out the fun switch.

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