The Snapshots in Time Collection

Soldiers Servicing a Fortress/Coastal Defense Gun in a Concrete Casemate, c. 1930s

Soldiers Servicing a Fortress/Coastal Defense Gun in a Concrete Casemate, c. 1930s

Soldiers service the breech of a large fortress gun mounted within a concrete casemate, its armored shield and heavy barrel built to defend a strategic approach. Coastal and river forts equipped with guns like this one played a key role in the military campaigns that swept China during the 1930s. Project: 218606