§§- Deux 15cm Type 38 (Japon) Russes à St Petersbourg, Russie

De la part de Charlie Clelland

Hi Bernard, 

There are two surviving Type 38 howitzers in the courtyard of Ratnaya Palata in St Petersburg. 

I only found data on one of them. 

2 howitzers

59.72542097256346, 30.385715381433112

Courtyard of Ratnaya Palata, Pushkin Fermskaya Rd, 5. St. Petersburg.

1. Serial #74 Built 1912 (Mejii era 45) at Osaka Arsenal

The 150-mm model 1905 was put into service in Japan in 1905, in the 38th year of the reign of Emperor Meiji, but more or less serial production of howitzers according to the Krupp project was established only in 1911. Russia ordered 800 such systems and shells for howitzers from the Japanese , but the industry of the island empire failed and only 16 howitzers were delivered, which were transferred to the fortress - 12 to Finland and 4 to Vladivostok. Accordingly, after the collapse of the Russian Empire, all Japanese howitzers ended up in the Finnish army, where they received the name 150 H/14j, and after the Soviet-Finnish War they returned to the hands of the Red Army as a trophy. In the museum there is a howitzer with serial number - 74

https://dzen.ru/b/ZOcL7iMMoQoKkuwv

Regards, 

Charlie

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