To further explore the history of this shell, the example shown now carries post-war Finnish Army paint. The M-10 and ML-20 (as were the nomenclatures by the Finnish Army) 152mm guns remained in their service until the turn of the century.Ī Russian Howitzer used by the Germans as a Coastal Artillery gun. Whilst these recently acquired examples by us are of German manufacture, they come from a batch which were sold to the the their allies, the Finns, during the Continuation War in first part of 1944 for use with their Russian captured howitzers. Production of such munitions started on February 1943.Ĭaptured 152mm guns were pressed by the German army in the Soviet Union and in Coastal defensive duties in southern France, Italy and along the Atlantic Wall.
As had also happened with captured French field guns, the German Army (Heer) started producing shells to keep these guns in service once the captured munitions were depleted.
It's big! It's heavy! It's free from explosives! Relax and read on.Ĭaptured in significant quantities by the Germans at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941), Russian M1937 and M1938 howitzer guns were immediately included in the arsenal of the German Army, which gave them the new nomenclature 15,2 cm sFH 433(r) and sFH 443 (r) respectively.
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