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Topical Budget 284-2: Barrage Fire (1917)
 

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Title: "BARRAGE FIRE. Owing to its wonderful accuracy and rapidity of fire the French 75 m/m gun is extreamely [sic] useful for 'barrage fire' in preventing trench raids".

Rear view of French troops loading and firing a 75mm gun from beneath a wooden shelter. Shells explode in the distance on grassland.