
Etiket: shell
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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)
![“Across the litter on Iwo Jima’s black sands, Marines of the 4th Division shell enemy positions cleverly concealed back from the beaches. Here, a gun pumps a stream of shells into positions inland on the tiny volcanic island.” February 1945. [1179×948]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/j46hbralz49h1.jpeg)

![Schwerer Gustav shell, 1945, [900×1069]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/umlqoh3l624h1.jpeg)

![Woman working with gigantic shell in the National Shell Filling Factory No. 6 in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, UK, 1917 [2560×1919]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/8m9agtucalxg1.png)

![South African Police officers prepare a response to random gunfire as IFP protesters flee during what would become known as the Shell House massacre. 28 March 1994, South Africa [1469×980]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8aldr7kfz4sg1.jpeg)
