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Versuchs Artillerie Regiment 287

An experimental unit from 1918

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Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson
Oct 09, 2025
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10cm Guns (Model 1917) on the Somme, May 1918 (US National Archives)

While doing a bit of background research for The Diary of a Stosstrupp Leader, I ran across a depiction of the structure of the 108th Infantry Division on 5 March 1918, While the organogram of the division itself offered no surprises, the diagram that described the units attached to the basic formation revealed something that I had never seen before, an overview of Experimental Artillery Regiment 287 (Versuchs Artillerie Regiment 287).

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