Send it! 1918 version
“U.S. Signal Corps photograph. American 155 mm Artillery Cooperating with the 29th Div. in Position on Road Just Taken from the Germans. Bat[tery] A 324th Artillery, 158[th] Brig[ade] in France.” Showing a stumpy Schneider M1917 155mm howitzer at play. A total of 3,008 were bought or built with U.S. guns made under license by the American Brake Shoe Co. on carriages by Osgood-Bradley Car, using recoil mechanisms made in Detroit by Dodge, although the one in use below is almost certainly a French-made example.
National Photo Company Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (118.00.00) https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.40789/
I am the Adjutant of our inactive (closing) American Legion Post #340, in Sugar Creek, Mo, PUFL life-member, and also life-member of our VFW Post #3976. We have a howitzer in our local Memorial Park, Schneider, 155-mm, Model 1918. We want to move the piece to another local memorial-site, but I cannot locate an ID# to document who the piece is ‘signed-out-to’ from DOD. Where is the VIN? Please help! Thank You, Steve E. Topi