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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by Sturm78 » 04 Jan 2012, 13:02

Hi all,

An old finnish gun being towed by a truck:

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by JTV » 04 Jan 2012, 13:42

Sturm78 wrote: An old finnish gun being towed by a truck:
120 K/78: http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/ARTILLERY2.htm#120K78

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by Sturm78 » 06 Jan 2012, 10:46

Thank you, Jarkko

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by igor_verh » 11 Jan 2012, 18:38

Hi to all!
Some photos with finnish gunners and cannons:
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Финские солдаты на трофейном советском артиллерийском тягаче Т-20 «Комсомолец».jpg
Finnish soldiers on captured Soviet artillery tractor T-20 "Komsomolets"
Финские артиллеристы у 120-мм пушки Виккерса.jpg
Finnish artillery - 120-mm gun Vickers
Финские артиллеристы на острове Путсаари у орудия.jpg
Finnish artillery on the island Putsaari (Lake Ladoga) - 57-mm coastal guns Nordenfelt 57/48. November 1941

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by JTV » 11 Jan 2012, 22:30

igor_verh wrote:Hi to all!
Some photos with finnish gunners and cannons:
The gun towed with Komsomolets A20 in the first photo is 75 K/97 light field gun (French Materiel de 75, Modele 1897).

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by igor_verh » 12 Jan 2012, 10:07

Hi, one more photo "Shot 75 mm anti-aircraft gun "Bofors" at night" and question: are Finnish soldiers around the gun?
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Shot of anti-aircraft "Bofors" 75-mm Model 1930. In the 30's were exported to Argentina, China, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iran and Thailand.

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by JTV » 12 Jan 2012, 11:04

igor_verh wrote:Hi, one more photo "Shot 75 mm anti-aircraft gun "Bofors" at night" and question: are Finnish soldiers around the gun?
My best guess would be that they are Swedish soldiers. At least some of the hats look like they could be Swedish. Swedish military headgear website: http://www.markusholst.se/militaria/mossor.htm

While this gun was manufactured mainly in 75-mm caliber, it was available also in other calibers. Finland acquired four of these guns in 76.2-mm caliber and these were known in Finnish use as 76 ItK/29 B (76-mm anti-aircraft gun model 1929 Bofors). More info: http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/AA_GUNS3.htm#76ItK29

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by sjashford » 12 Jan 2012, 21:38

A couple of photographs from my visit (Sep '07) to the in Hameenlinna an excellent, and remarkably attractive museum.
Another 26 are available to view in my Phobucket album (sorry do not have the hang of hyperlinking!)
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Finland bought a number of british 18 pdr field guns - this example is displayed at the Artillery Museum, Hameenlina

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by igor_verh » 13 Jan 2012, 14:29

My photo from Panssarimuseo in Parola - two cannons with a rich military history (marks on barrels)
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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by Sturm78 » 06 Dec 2012, 12:23

Hi all,

According to photocaption Finnish howitzer in 1943.

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by JTV » 06 Dec 2012, 14:04

Sturm78 wrote: According to photocaption Finnish howitzer in 1943.
Nice photo, it's 203 H/17 super-heavy howitzer - the most common super-heavy artillery piece in Finnish use during World War 2.

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by Sturm78 » 24 Sep 2013, 23:44

Hi all,

Can somebody identify this finnish coastal gun?

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by JTV » 25 Sep 2013, 06:11

Sturm78 wrote:Hi all,
Can somebody identify this finnish coastal gun?
It looks like 234/50 Be (234-mm coastal gun with 50-caliber gun barrel, model Bethlehem). The only artillery battery equipped these guns in Finland was coastal artillery battery of six guns on Russarö Island.

BTW: For some reason the picture looks somewhat elongated if compared to attached photo (SA-kuva.fi photo archive, photo 7637, photographed 13th of March 1940).

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Re: Finnish Artillery

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Post by Sturm78 » 25 Sep 2013, 11:50

Thank you very much for your help, Jarkko.

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152 mm gun (3.3-ton) M1904 in Finnish service

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Post by ain92 » 21 Jan 2014, 12:48

Hello all,
found in the Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive images ## 134461—134464, they show 152-mm Russian gun M1904 (152 K 04?) with non-original solid wheels:
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Was it the only one of this type in Finnish Army?
Thanks in advance.
With best regards, Ilya.

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