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The 10 cm Kanone 04 was a field gun
used by Germany in World War I.
It was the second heavy gun with modern recoil system accepted
by the German Army.

It was produced as a replacement
for the 10 cm K 99 and the lange 15 cm Kanone 92.
Although the standard version
lacked a gunshield, some models, such as the 10 cm K 04/12,
were fitted with a special gunshield and
some other minor modifications.

The K 04 would be used by the German Empire and
Bulgaria during WWI and they were still in service
during WWII

During the fighting on August 1914, French and
German troops fought heavily in the vicinity of Transinne,
with the battle becoming so fierce the German soldiers
would commit atrocities on civilians.

During the battle, Transinne acted as a military hospital
for German wounded.
And guns like these operated from the nearby village
of Villance to bombard
the French troops who took the village of
Maissin in August 1914.

These four Canon 10cm K 04 were abandoned in the city of
Huy by the retreating German troops in 1918,
these guns were collected to be scrapped, but
were moved to Transinne in 1922.
and would be placed here as a monument

During WW2 they were moved by the residents to a nearby forest in order
to avoid them to be scrapped by the Germans or
targeted by the allied air force.

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■ the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France

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