August 6, 1982, Neenah-Menasha Daily Northwestern
America has a long history of honoring their war dead by spotlighting artillery pieces like this, placing them in city parks and town squares. The Twin Cities are no exception. Many a boy (or girl) found themselves crawling over them, defending the parks from unknown invaders, directing their fires to save the day. These two pieces are from the 1910s and 1920s. A really great war memorial site http://warmemorials.us/artillery/type91_105mm.html tells me the Menasha cannon is of Japanese origin and the Neenah one is from France. Be that as it may, they were always on my side during my army play and I never lost a battle.
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