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New artillery article on Landships II - a St Chamond 155mm howitzer produced in fairly small numbers but it had a long service life with the

French and Rumanian Armies and after the fall of France in 1940 with the Finnish and German Armies.

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Charlie



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Charlie Serbian army had few battery St Chamond 155 mm howitzer in 1917 and 1918. In the second half of the twenties in the factory in Kragujevac howitzers were brought to a standard of 155 mm howitzers Schneider Mod 1917.

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Thanks I'll update the article. I guess the upgrade applied to the Serbian guns was the same as St Chamond developed for the Mle 1915 howitzer.

This upgrade took the max. range from 9300m to 12000m which is about the same as the 155mm C Schneider Mle 1917. 

There are still a couple of unresolved issues with the St Chamond howitzer:

I've seen a comment that the Germans gave Finland 100 captured St Chamond howitzers in 1941 but this is unconfirmed.

The elevation system is referred to as lifting the front part of the carriage but I haven't found any detail about how this worked. 

Regards,

Charlie

Edit: Added the Serbian St Chamond howitzers to the article.



-- Edited by CharlieC on Monday 24th of December 2012 05:42:34 AM

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Hello,

In the finland book of Jyri Paulaharju "Itsenaïsen suomen Kenttätykit 1918-1995" edited by Sotanmuseon julkaisuja 1/1996, the author describes all the finland guns used by the Army of Finland.
Unfortunately, the finland language is quite difficult and I have not understood all the text!
I do not understood if the "155 mm ranskalainen raskas haupitsi vuodelta 1915 (155 H 15)" (which is the name of the french "obusier de 155 mm modèle 1915 Saint-Chamond") is a french sending for aid the Finland during the war against USSR ("Winter War") or a sending after the french defeat of juni 1940.
The certain fact is that finland Army had the following numbers of "obusiers de 155 mm Mle 1915 Saint-Chamond" in service:
-19 july 1940: 24.
-01 july 1942: 24.
-01 september 1944: 24.
-31 august 1951: 24.
-15 february 1962: 24.
A very long life for these old "obusiers"!
Yours sincerely,
Guy François.

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