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CharlieC · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Oct 24, 2012 Posts: 58

I know there are surviving 6-inch M1908 howitzers at Fort Sill, Lima, Ohio and Greenville, SC.

Are there any others?

Regards,

Charlie

Rick_Eshleman

There's also one listed at: 7th Ave. East, North St. Paul. MN at: 45.00 deg. 53.95N x 92 deg. 59' 12.95W. I verified this in Google, and Google Earth. Rick

CharlieC · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Oct 24, 2012 Posts: 58

Thanks.

John Anderson on the warmemorial.us website says there's another one at Kenosha, WI but no details about location.

Regards,

Charlie

Rick_Eshleman

I Saw John Anderson war memorial, but could not verify it. There are probably others around! Rick

armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

Lima has two, Ft Sill, North St Paul, Greenville, and Kenosha each have one, anyone have a pic of the Kenosha one?

CharlieC · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Oct 24, 2012 Posts: 58

I found one of the Lima, OH guns at the corner of S.Shawnee St and E.Elm St (40.737909,-84.087538) - where's the other one?

The Greenville, SC M1908 is at North Academy Street, (34.856373,-82.394337) - it's under trees but can be seen with Google street view.

I'm writing up the M1908 howitzer for Landships II (landships.info) and I like to add surviving guns to the article if there are any.

Regards,

Charlie

armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

Here you go Charlie,
40° 44.272'N 84° 5.247'W Lincoln Park Lima

40° 43.968'N 84° 7.655'W Faurot Park Lima

Both are nicely painted, the wheels were off the Faurot Park one the day I saw it.

Lima also has a 6pdr MkX tube only downtown at 40° 44.245'N 84° 6.383'W
W Elm/ S Elizabeth

CharlieC · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Oct 24, 2012 Posts: 58

Thank you.

I have an image of the Faurot Park howitzer with the wheels off. I haven't found an image of the Lincoln Park howitzer and there's no Google street view in that neighbourhood.

The Kenosha howitzer may have left the state - there's a reference on the website of the Russell Military Museum to an M1908 gun. The Museum used to be called the Kenosha Military Museum but moved across the border to Zion, IL.

Regards,

Charlie

vagabond

Charlie - do you need photos of the Greenville, SC M1908?

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