What type of howitzer is this?
Assuming it is a howitzer. My Dad is standing next to it.
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My best guess is a 3.7? anti aircraft gun. What timeframe do you associate this picture with?
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Soviet M1931/37 122mm. 0 -
122 mm corps gun M1931/37 (A-19) (Russian: 122- (1931/1937) was a Soviet field gun developed in late 1930s by combining the barrel of the 122 mm gun M1931 (A-19) and the carriage of the 152 mm howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20). The gun was in production from 1939 until 1946. It saw action in World War II (primarily with corps and RVGK artillery of the Red Army) and remained in service for a long time after the end of the war. Vehicle-mounted variants of the gun were fitted to the IS-2 and IS-3 tanks of the Iosif Stalin series of tanks and the ISU-122 self-propelled gun.
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In the early stage of the Great Patriotic War hundreds of A-19s fell into the hands of Wehrmacht. Both variants were adopted - M1931 as 12,2 cm K.390/1(r) and M1931/37 as 12,2 cm K.390/2(r). Germans used a total of 424 of these guns in field and coastal artillery and manufactured ammunition for them.[9]
Germany sold 150 of the captured A-19s to Spain in 1943. This transaction was part of the "B?r Program", a program to complete and modernize the equipment of the Spanish Armed Forces using armament delivered by Germany. Most of these A-19 were assigned to the Corps Field Artillery Regiments of the Spanish Army, each regiment receiving 12 pieces to equip a group. The model was well liked in Spain, and 32 additional pieces were ordered by the Army and produced ? with neither documentation nor licenses ? by the Trubia Arms Factory. After acquisition of more modern American artillery, the Spanish A-19s were relegated to the artillery regiments of territorial defense units. 173 of the Spanish A-19s were modernized in the 1970s, and the guns remained in service with the Spanish Army until the 1990s.[10]
The Finnish Army captured 25 pieces in 1941 and also pressed them into service. The same designation 122 K/31 was applied to both variants. Because of shortage in heavy tractors, the gun was mostly used in coastal artillery. Four pieces were lost; the rest remained in service after the war. In 1980s some pieces had their barrels replaced with 152 mm barrels of ML-20; the resulting pieces were designated 152 H 37-31. In late 1980s both 152 H 37-31 and the remaining 122 K/31 received new 152 mm L/32 barrels manufactured by Vammas, to become 152 H 88-31.
The Kingdom of Romania captured in 1941 a number of 477 various types of 122 mm howitzers and guns including M1931/37 and the modern ones were used as divisional artillery for units rebuilt after 1941 campaign. Some guns captured by the Romanians were modified and fitted on the initial prototypes of the Mare?al tank destroyer.
The A-19s were used by Polish Armed Forces in the East in 1944-45 and remained in Polish service after the war. In 1952 the Polish Army possessed 63 pieces. In 1980s, in order to improve their mobility, the Polish guns were fitted with wheels from KrAZ-255B truck, resulting in 122 mm armata wz. 1931/37/85.[citation needed]
78 122 mm guns were supplied to Yugoslavia.[11] The People's Army of Vietnam also received A-19s and used them during the Vietnam War.[12]
Other recipients of the M1931/37 were Syria (at least 100 pieces, currently in storage)[13] and Egypt.[14] China also purchased a number of the M1931/37 during early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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here is the source of that information--ww2 database website
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The 122mm multi purpose field gun has been a standard backbone issue item for Soviet and Chinese sphere of influence countries since the end of WWII in many forms and iterations...
We slagged tons of them during the gulf war in Iraq - we faced them in Vietnam and Korea and everywhere else we have sent troops since then...
As noted even NATO countries and allies fielded variants - still do to this day.
It's even been used as a naval gun mounted on ships of the line.
Finding tons of data is easy - identifying it at a glance and knowing which exact make and model it is requires a bit more than simple google searches...
Though I suppose you could google search the image and go from there - I new it was an early 122 mm from jump street - but which exact one I don't know...
I suspect it's the original Russian make or possibly one captured and used by the Germans - I can not tell the difference from the picture...
Knowing we're and when the photo was taken and what unit the gent belonged to might yield more specificity...
And I checked reference books first but declined to type out reams of data by hand on my phone so I copied what I thought was good info from a reputable sight - and not the one referenced above...
Google is my last resort option - I prefer old fashioned books and research cause I retain the knowledge better.
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Google Image Search thinks he is standing next to a horse - specifically a mare...
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who googled it? i didn't. i didn't wiki it either. did you wiki the information,.it doesn't matter a diddly crap to me if you did or not. i just posted the link to cite my reference to where i found the same information you posted verbatim. carry on as i really don't care. i just wanted to add to my gun related post count. 0
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