Girl Gunners- the work of the Auxiliary Territorial Service at An Experimental Station, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, 1943 ATS women dismantle Velocity Screens at Shoeburyness, following a test firing by the Royal Artillery. The shells are fired through the screens, which had been filled a grid of copper wire. When the shell is fired through the wire, the circuit is broken, producing results in the velocity room, by which the speed of the shell can be checked. The shells were fired into the sea at high tide.

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