Chinese Artillery of WW2: 155mm M1918 Howitzer
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- During the First World War, the US purchased large numbers of French howitzers to supply the AEF. They would also acquire the licenses for many of these guns and produce them domestically as well. The 155mm M1918 howitzer is an example of this, being a license- produced version of the French Schneider M1917. Although they were updated during the inter war years as well as the early years of WW2, they were still considered to be quite outdated and would eventually be replaced with the 155mm M1 howitzer. Many of the older M1917s and M1918s would be provided to other Allied nations through the lend-lease program, with one of the recipients being China. In 1943, a regiment’s worth of these howitzers were given to Chinese troops stationed in India. This video will take a closer look at these howitzers in Chinese service during the Second World War.
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An excellent video on an obscure topic, glad you made it. You definitely deserve more subscribers
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Another great, very well researched video...thanks for sharing!
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Interesting beautiful story, so informative
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Fantastic! Love the usual attention to detail. Just shared it to our page. Thanks for sharing the wealth of information.
Glad you enjoyed! If you ever decide to make a model of this, I hope this video will help haha. Thanks for sharing the video!
@@resistanceremembered Definitely. When we do the X & Y forces we'll be adding the US & British materials and equipment to the catalog. 😁
China had so many artillery pieces from nearly every country during WW2!
Indeed! Not just artillery pieces but all kinds of weapons and equipment. Basically they used something from every major participant, both axis and allied. Thanks for watching!
Another great, very well researched video...thanks for sharing! Love the new channel name.
Thanks! I’ve been thinking about changing it for a while now as I guess it more related to my content lol. I’m glad you like the new name!
Bravo Andrew, an enjoyable presentation very informative and once again using footage most of us are new to. I do enjoy your presentations, I pressed like and will be sharing this one online. One question did you find any reference of these guns been provided by the Chinese to the Vietnamese? Cheers
Thanks a lot for your support! I really appreciate it! I wasn’t able to find any reference of the guns being provided to the Vietnamese unfortunately. I was focusing more on their WW2 usage haha. If I come across anything, I’ll be sure to let you know!
@@resistanceremembered always a pleasure to support things that bring greater knowledge and understanding of China's War of Resistance. The Vietnamese question is just idle chit chat on my part its not a theatre that I campaign. Keep up the good work, cheers
@@wargamingchina9174 I know that they did get a lot of weapons and equipment from other Warsaw Pact countries. German weapons from the Soviets, East German helmets, etc. It’s quite interesting to examine a lot of the photos from that conflict.
@@resistanceremembered yes it is interesting especially the amount of German WW2 that turned up there.cheers
Can you do a video of the ww1 krump guns used by the Chinese throughout the war?
Thanks for watching! Do you mean the 75mm Krupp 1903 style field guns? If so, I definitely plan on making one in the future, just not sure when lol.
@@resistanceremembered that is the one. You may also want to look at Finnish machine guns
Interesting
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5:44 this guy is familiar to me.
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I'm still thinking what happen to German artillery post World War and chinese civil war still in service and captured by reds?
By the end of ww2, most German equipment had already been replaced with American ones. But some were captured and later used in the early years of the People’s Liberation Army. They would have been phased out of front line units relatively quickly though and most were scrapped, with a few surviving in museums.
china has huge manufacturers
Thanks for watching. During the Second World War period, the Chinese were able to manufacture a couple of different types of artillery pieces. However, the M1918s in this video were not domestically manufactured and were instead, provided by the US under the lens-lease program.
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打淞沪会战时有这炮就好了
是的。当时大多数的炮兵部队使用的还是75毫米山炮和野炮。但是我认为光有这些155毫米榴弹炮的话对战剧的影响不会太大。淞沪会战的时候炮兵第10团也参加了但表现并不是特别理想。他们的德造15厘米榴弹炮按理说在当年应该算挺先进的装备了。数量太少只是一部分原因。我认为还有就是因为官兵的经验不足而且不同部队不会配合。后来在撤退的时候炮10团损失了将近一个营的装备，按老兵回忆不是因为日军而是因为前面的工兵部队在没有和他们联系的情况下在他们必经的一座桥上安装了地雷。后来因为跑过不了河只能被推进水里防止被日本人缴获。
@@resistanceremembered 我看很多资料说淞沪会战时国军的炮根本打不动日军据点“海军陆战队司令部”的外墙
这些说的应该就是炮十团的32倍15榴。我猜可能是这些榴弹炮使用的是高爆弹，所以无法穿透大楼的水泥墙。但这只是我的猜测 具体原因我也不是特别清楚。