The Snapshots in Time Collection

Abandoned Wheeled Field Gun Outside Damaged Building, Luzon, Philippines, 1945

Abandoned Wheeled Field Gun Outside Damaged Building, Luzon, Philippines, 1945

An abandoned wheeled field gun, likely a Japanese pack or mountain artillery piece, sits outside a heavily damaged building in Baguio, Luzon, following the 1945 battle for the city's liberation. Weapons left behind amid the ruins offer physical evidence of the intense fighting that swept through Luzon's towns in the closing months of World War II. Project: 218437