Posts tagged: German artillery
Shot from a German heavy 240-mm howitzer positions of Soviet troops in the area Perekopa. This is a heavy howitzer czechoslovakian firm “Škoda”, adopting Germany under the designation of 24 cm Haubitze 39. Originally, these guns were intended for export to Turkey, but the Turks were only two guns. Others joined the 1 st Battalion 814 th Artillery Regiment Wehrmacht. This is the only unit of the German army in which were these howitzers, making a total of 18 copies were manufactured.
420-mm mortar Gamma »(Gamma Mörser kurze marinekanone L/16), manufactured by Krupp.
Installed at the position at Sevastopol, was in service with the 459th separate artillery battery 781-Artillery Regiment (1 gun).