Image: 18inchRailwayHowitzerBocheBusterWWII

Description: 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 : A version artificially brightened to highlight details is here : Image:18inchRailwayHowitzerBocheBusterWWII-Brightened.jpg
Title: 18inchRailwayHowitzerBocheBusterWWII
Credit: Flickr http://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
Permission: Crown Copyright expired (50 years)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No