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155mm Heavy Artillery Battery

By: Battlefront Miniatures

Type: Miniatures Box Set

Product Line: Flames of War - WWII - Poland - Artillery, AA, AT and AFV's

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Last Stocked on 6/12/2018

Product Info

Title
155mm Heavy Artillery Battery
Sub-category
Publish Year
2011
NKG Part #
2147449900
MFG. Part #
BFMPBX07
Type
Miniatures Box Set
Age Range
14 Years and Up

Description

The 155mm wz. 17 was the Polish designation for the French 155mm C mle 1917 S howitzer designed by Schneider. These guns were acquired by the Poles from the French at the end of the First World War.

In essence, the 155mm C mle 1917 S howitzer was a 155mm C mle 1915 S howitzer fitted with a different breech mechanism to accept a bagged propellant charge rather than a cartridge contained propellant. The French made the switch due to the high costs involved in manufacturing the brass casings for the 155mm C mle 1915 S howitzer.

At the start of World War Two, the Polish Army had over two hundred of these guns in service with the Heavy Artillery Batteries of the infantry divisions and like most equipment from armies opposing Germany; they also saw service in the German Army as the 15.5 cm sFH 17(p) after the fall of Poland.