US Army 105mm Howitzer M2 on Carriage M1

Another view of my horse drawn 105mm howitzer.

Officially, 105mm Howitzer M2 on carriage M1, fourteen of them were made and they were trialed in units in the field.

They could have been shipped to the Philippines and saw service there in WWII but there is no actual evidence of that.

I think it is an interesting looking version of this gun.

The US Army also got over a thousand leFH-18 German WWI howitzers as a result of the demilitarization of German for the First World War.  They kept them in storage until at least 1925.  Nearly 50 even survive today as various memorials and trophies.

Here is the US 105 howitzer in the field.  Designed to be towed by horses a slow moving crawler tractor will also work.

The troops prepare to fire the gun.  Once all of them are completed, I plan to bulk flock the bases.