A cannon in the front yard!? Well, doesn't everybody?
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It's a little WW1 museum:
no pic but maybe it's on this site somewhere
http://www.ww1.org/index.html
article from 2000.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20000829&slug=4039410
article from 1993.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19931007&slug=1724905
"But the climax of a visit is walking over to the howitzer, which Cole found in Zanesville, Ohio, and bought for $1,500. He has been able to trace its history to 1962, but nothing before that, so it's not known how it was captured or shipped to the United States."
no pic but maybe it's on this site somewhere
http://www.ww1.org/index.html
article from 2000.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20000829&slug=4039410
article from 1993.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19931007&slug=1724905
"But the climax of a visit is walking over to the howitzer, which Cole found in Zanesville, Ohio, and bought for $1,500. He has been able to trace its history to 1962, but nothing before that, so it's not known how it was captured or shipped to the United States."
Went back to my state of birth a few years ago.
Wisconsin, escaped in 67. Family was having a reunion.
My uncle gave us directions to the park.
Look for the tank on the left and you are there.
Past it 2 times before I realized not water tank but genuine US army tank.
Remember when they put old planes, cannon, ect. in parks.
Maryvale had a F86 I think mounted for folks to look at. Probably got stolen by now.
Wisconsin, escaped in 67. Family was having a reunion.
My uncle gave us directions to the park.
Look for the tank on the left and you are there.
Past it 2 times before I realized not water tank but genuine US army tank.
Remember when they put old planes, cannon, ect. in parks.
Maryvale had a F86 I think mounted for folks to look at. Probably got stolen by now.
Kind of surprising it escaped the scrap drives of WW2.
how about that. Scroll down and take a look at the pic of the two kids sitting on what looks like the same sort of gun. Some bits and pieces missing but the shape of the breech is the same.
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/wyoming-and-world-war-ii
"One controversial Cheyenne scrap metal donation left some people scratching their heads. Officials decided to remove captured World War I German artillery pieces from the state house lawn—over objections from the Wyoming Stock Growers Association.
“Why do we sit back and permit things to be destroyed that stand for our traditions?” association secretary Russell Thorp asked. “Why do we have to destroy things that create interest in and respect for the very ideals that we are now fighting to preserve?”
The objection did not persuade state salvage officials, who sent the howitzers to a smelter anyway."
Over the objections of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. And it ended up in a farmer's field in Ohio. Hmmm.
Wyoming National Guard in WW1.
https://www.wyomilitary.wyo.gov/17_088/
how about that. Scroll down and take a look at the pic of the two kids sitting on what looks like the same sort of gun. Some bits and pieces missing but the shape of the breech is the same.
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/wyoming-and-world-war-ii
"One controversial Cheyenne scrap metal donation left some people scratching their heads. Officials decided to remove captured World War I German artillery pieces from the state house lawn—over objections from the Wyoming Stock Growers Association.
“Why do we sit back and permit things to be destroyed that stand for our traditions?” association secretary Russell Thorp asked. “Why do we have to destroy things that create interest in and respect for the very ideals that we are now fighting to preserve?”
The objection did not persuade state salvage officials, who sent the howitzers to a smelter anyway."
Over the objections of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. And it ended up in a farmer's field in Ohio. Hmmm.
Wyoming National Guard in WW1.
https://www.wyomilitary.wyo.gov/17_088/
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