15-cm sFH-18
schwere Feldhaubitze 18
Overview
15-cm sFH-18
A 15-cm sFH-18 seen on display at the Base Borden Military Museum in 2006.
Source: Balcer -
© CC BY 2.5
Nazi Germany - MAN, Augsburg
Nazi Germany - Dörries-Füllner, Bad Armbrunn
Nazi Germany - Škoda, Dubnica (occupied)
40.400 Reichsmark in 1944
1.353 available in 1939
Obice 149/28 (Italian service)
150 H 40 (Finnish service)
Howitzer M18 (Czechoslovak service)
Finland
Portugal - (post WW2)
Czechoslovakia - (post WW2)
Details
Media
15-cm sFH-18
Rear view of a German army 15-cm sFH-18 heavy howitzer in the firing position in the Soviet Union in June of 1942.
Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-078-3073-23A
Copyright: CC BY-SA 3.0
15-cm sFH-18
German army 15-cm sFH-18 seen on parade in Warsaw in 1939. Note the separate carriage for the barrel when using horse drawn limbers.
Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-001-0251-10
Copyright: CC BY-SA 3.0
15-cm sFH-18
American troops with a captured 15-cm sFH-18 howitzer in 1944.
Source: US Army
Copyright: Public domain
15-cm sFH-18
German army sFH-18 towed howitzer drawn by a Sd.Kfz. 7 halftrack in Gdansk in 1939.
Source: Wydawnictwo Prasowe Kraków-Warszawa
Copyright: Public domain
15-cm sFH-18
German troops in Sicily firing their camouflaged 15-cm sFH-18 towed howitzer in August of 1943.
Source: Wydawnictwo Prasowe Kraków-Warszawa
Copyright: Public domain
15-cm sFH-18 limber
Close-up of the limber for the motorized transport of the 15-cm sFH-18 towed howitzer.
Source: Heereswaffenamt
Copyright: Public domain
15-cm sFH-18
Multiple German 15-cm sFH-18 captured by Soviet forces on the Eastern Front in 1943.
Source: Sergey Strunnikov (1907–1944)
Copyright: Public domain
15-cm sFH-18
A 15-cm sFH-18 towed howitzer serving as a war memorial in Ukraine as seen in 2012
Source: DrDeemon
Copyright: CC BY-SA 3.0
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