Magazine

Archive

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Museum of History Benicia

Name/Title

Magazine

Entry/Object ID

2014.035.0001

Scope and Content

Booklet/Magazine: "155-mm Howitzer by Yuba" on red front cover with a black/white photograph from WWII (taken near St. Lo France close to the German lines; the howitzer is in full recoil after being fired) Inside title page: "Yuba Builds the Army's 155-mm Howitzer" The articles by Frank A. Stanley are reprinted by permission of "Western Machinery and Steel World". There is also a story about subcontractors and many picutres of interest to the people who worked on the howitzer job. The 155-mm howitzer was known as "whispering death". 46 pages 11-3/8" x 8-1/4" compiled by Herbert A. Sawin, Yuba Mfg. Co. printed by Recorder-Sunset Press, San Francisco Yuba Manufacturing Co., San Francisco, December 1944

Collection

Yuba Manufacturing Collection