
Etiket: Artillery
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![Brazilian soldier in Southern Italy battling the nazis, 1944. Written in the artillery shell is the quote “the snake is smoking”, a symbol of the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces adopted in response to critics who said “it was more likely for a snake to smoke, than to Brazil to join the war”[788×1024]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jsc97y6b30ug1.jpeg)
Brazilian soldier in Southern Italy battling the nazis, 1944. Written in the artillery shell is the quote “the snake is smoking”, a symbol of the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces adopted in response to critics who said “it was more likely for a snake to smoke, than to Brazil to join the war”[788×1024]

![A heavy German coast artillery shell falls between USS Texas (BB-35) and USS Arkansas (BB-33), while the two battleships were engaging Battery Hamburg during the bombardment of Cherbourg, France, 25 June 1944 [3616 x 2872]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/mzzykfa8kf9h1-scaled.jpeg)
![Sgt. Norwood Dorman of Benson, N.C., and the 36th Field Artillery Regiment stops to rest at a memorial to the Italian soldiers of World War I. Brolo, Sicily, Italy. 14 August, 1943. [2048×1648]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8j6nny1xp50h1.jpeg)

![A 240mm Howitzer of Battery B, 697th Field Artillery Battalion, shortly before firing on German positions at Mignano, Italy. January 1944. [3000×2404]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/8w34c8ag0nwg1-scaled.jpeg)
