

AN ITALIAN ARTILLERY OBSERVATORY IN THE DOLOMITES 



A stairway is built almost to the top of the peak and a tunnel drilled through the vertex. 

 Climbing up in safety on their own side, the observers make their way through the tunnel 

 to a point where they can overlook the positions of the enemy. 



Photographs by courtesy of the Italian Military Mission 



A FIELD ARTILLERYMAN AND HIS PET IN THE DOLOMITES 



Artillery positions high up in the mountains are frequently embrasures blasted out of the 

 Solid rock, with the front filled in and only a small opening left for the mouth of the gun. 



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