Allied Artillery

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Lately, I have been interested in starting an allied artillery project, but have been unable to locate any significant amount of information on the subject. My inspiration normally comes from historical accounts, tales of daring deeds and such. Does anyone know of any sites with information on the different types of allied artillery. I would be most appreciated.

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I dont have a site, but I watched a D-Day special on the history channel, and a 105mm howitzer battery fired there guns from the landing crafts because they could not get on the beach. Unfortunatley the Germans got to them in a short time. Thats the only story I know of allied artillery.

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You could start at:
http://www.artillery.net/english/engstart.htm
Peruse what they have on the Royal Canadian Artillery and use some of their links

or: http://www.btinternet.com/~wars/
for the war diary of the British 58th Medium Regt Royal Artillery 1940-5

or: http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/msgfisher/ww2pic.html
for a great little site on the US 29th Field Artillery

Try searching using google - you will find heaps of sites

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Where’s Gino (heavyarty)? He ought to have some.

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Just saw the post, was hanging out with the rotorheads. Not sure what you are looking for, but there are many kits out there of allied (WWII, I presume) arty.

Here is a quick rundown of what is out there:

WWII Era, you have the great kits by AFV Club of M59 Long Tom 155mm and M115 8" howitzers. Academy does the M12 SP Howitzer. Italeri does the M101 105mm and M1A2 (M114) 155mm howitzers, and the M7 Priest 105mm SP howitzer too. Tamiya has the M8 HMC as well. Yuo could also use an M4 105 as well, strictly not arty, but was also used in that role.

Good luck.

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Thanks. I’m thinking about that 155mm.

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The US Army Field Artillery Assoc. may be helpful. The is also a pretty decent display of guns you can look at through the Ft. Sill museum.

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Don’t forget non-US artillery. VM/Alan/Dragon makes the Bishop, Tamiya makes the Centaur, I think there are several Soviet ones as well. There are a good number of towed UK/USSR artillery pieces as well.