This photo taken in early World War I has the caption: Siege guns in action under cover of a forest. This picture shows two heavy German mortars firing on the French. The guns are levated at a high angle so that the heavy projecties fall almost vertically on the enemy's forts.

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Photo credit: © Ivy Close Images / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 1910s, 20th, century, france, french, german, germans, germany, great, guns, mortar, mortars, siege, soldiers, war, world, wwi