Rare photos. Artillery of the Soviet partisans.

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[carlos marighela]

Nice find! Fortunately for me I have just such a gun for my collection of partisans. Now I need to do a conversion for the crew.

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I see in the photo 1 an officer or sergeant, apparently an artilleryman from the regular army (probably from the military units that were surrounded in 1941), one paratrooper (judging by the helmet), and two civilians.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Is the tank French?

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Yes. The German army used captured French tanks in Russia.

[Tim]

These are wonderful photos, thanks so much for posting them.  Really interesting subject matter.

I see three towed guns in the last picture which I cannot identify.  The two smaller ones look like Czech 47mm of the sort mounted on the Panzerjaeger I.  I have no idea about the one with the larger shield.

Can anyone identify these guns for me?

Thanks un advance.

[carlos marighela]

Left hand (from viewers side), the larger one is the Czech 47mm KPÚV vz. 38. Yes, that's the gun fitted to the Pzjgr I. It's missing the muzzle brake.

The other two look like the 37mm KPÚV vz. 34, another Czech weapon. The muzzle break being the giveaway. I've seen examples of those in Peru and IIRC they had one in the Bogotá military museum in Colombia.

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I will add another interesting photo to the collection.



The anti-tank cannon of the partisan detachment "For the Soviet Motherland" of the partisan brigade named after Chkalov. February 1944.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very odd looking device.

I assume there is some "spade" arrangement at the back (my guess is two planks of wood) otherwise it will be demonstrating Newton's third law of motion ^__^.

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I see a conventional artillery gun, that has removed wheels. It is installed on a peasant sledge for the convenience of moving through deep snow in the forest. I think that the problem of Newton's third law is solved in the standard way. But to use ordinary roads for partisans was sometimes quite problematic, they had to look for options for moving guns off-road.

By the way, their opponents also looked for a way to increase their patency in deep snow:

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I will add another interesting photo to the collection.



The anti-tank cannon of the partisan detachment "For the Soviet Motherland" of the partisan brigade named after Chkalov. February 1944.

You could model that with the left overs from the PSC gun set if it does not use the original trails.

Still looks odd.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Would that flak cannon be fired in situ, or off loaded?

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For those who want to model - the image of a peasant sledge:

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It seems - they shot straight from the sled.



Here is another "invention" of the partisans.

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