Hanna Wyoming, somewhat unusually for a small town, features a variety of memorials in different locations, including two different locations with war memorials. The other war memorial is featured just below, and is specific for World War One. This memorial is an all war memorial. It's additionally surprising as Hanna is a very small town.
The memorial features a M110 8in. howitzer, surplus form the Wyoming Army National Guard. Carbon County Wyoming, where Hanna is located, was the situs of the Service Battery of the 3d Bn 49th FA, an 8in howitzer unit that was headquartered in Casper.
An unusual feature of this memorial is the helmeted rifle feature, symbolic of the battlefield method of marking the location of the dead. The rifle, bayonet attached, is bayoneted to the ground with the soldier's helmet on the butt. Here, in an oddity, the rifle used for the memorial is a World War Two era Japanese Ariska rifle, which was presumably used because it was available.
Here the markings on the Arisaka's receiver are visible.
By way of some added information, Mike Lewis, who viewed these photographs, informed me that the interesting cloud that appears in the last several photographs "is an altcumulus stqnding lenticular (ACSL)." Additionally, the cloud type "is usually caused by moutain waves nad is an indicator of potentially bad turbulence." For weather observers, because of the risk to flight, observation of this type of cloud requires mandatory recordation in a weather observer's log. On the day I took these photographs, ground conditions were appalling, with winds gusting up to 60 mph on a regular basis. Indeed, dust from a reclamation site is visible in the background.
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