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Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964)
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Battery C, 6th Field Artillery, fired the first shot for America on the Lorraine front. A shell case flying through the air and a new shell sliding into the breech in the same fraction of a second. Beaumont, France., 09/02/1918. Crew with "Bridget" of Battery C, 6th Field Artillery, which fired the first shot for America in World War I at 6.05 a. m., on October 23 1917, from a position 400 meters (437 yards) east of Bathelemont.
Read : http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwi/fieldoperations/chapter9.htm archive copy at the Wayback Machine

The gun is a French Canon de 75 modèle 1897 named Bridget, held today at the United States Army Ordnance Museum (Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD), USA.


See : Image:75mm field gun m1897 1.jpg - the gun as it appears today.
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Date 2 September 1918
date QS:P571,+1918-09-02T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q38945047
Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S)
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 530744.

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  • Record group: Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985 (National Archives Identifier: 440)
  • Series: Signal Corps Photographs of American Military Activity, compiled 1754 - 1954 (National Archives Identifier: 530707)
  • NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-111-SC-20906
  • 111-SC-20906
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