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Photograph showing British BL 18 inch Howitzer Mk I mounted on railway carriage Boche Buster (which originally carried a 14 inch gun in WWI). Seen outside Bourne Park Tunnel, at Bishopsbourne in Kent, near the English South coast. The gun was used to cover possible invasion routes on the Kent coast. It had a relatively short range and could not fire across the channel.
The gun was positioned there from early 1941 to early 1944.
Boche Buster can be seen written on the left rear of the carriage.
See Image:BocheBusterFrontOutsideBourneParkTunnel21March1941.jpg for the view from outside the tunnel.


NOTE : This is an artificially brightened version of the original, to highlight details. The original is here : Image:18inchRailwayHowitzerBocheBusterWWII.jpg
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Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/pollobarca/2031692684/
This is part of the same shoot as Image:BocheBusterFrontOutsideBourneParkTunnel21March1941.jpg


and is hence part of the Imperial War Museum collection.
Author Photographer: Puttnam (Lt) War Office official photographer
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