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10.5cm sFH 18/40 on GW H39 (f)

Sturmgeschutz Abt 200 and Panzer Artillerie Reg’t 155 used these vehicles. They mounted older 105mm howitzers on ex-French Hotchkiss H 39 tanks chassis. Picture from pg.33, “Goodwood “ Bombardement géant anti-panzers, Georges Bernage and Jean-Pierre Benamou, Editions Heimdal, 1994.

Picture from pg 22, Les Grandes Batailles de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, No. 12, La Campagne de
Normandie (1),Yves Buffetaut, Histoire & Collections, Paris, France, 1994.

Picture from pg. 57, Bernage and Benamou, ibid.

Photo taken April, 2003, at Musee des Blindes in Saumur, France.

Spring 1944, east of St-Pierre sur Dives, a self-propelled gun passes a Delahaye staff car. Bundesarchiv photo from pg11, 39-45 Magazine, Number 1, December 1983, Editions Heimdal.

Other vehicles in Sturmgeschutz Abt 200:

Picture from pg. 70, Bernage and Benamou, ibid. The long upright object near the center of the vehicle is a covered AA machine gun. To it's right is a periscope/binocular sight. This Hotchkiss varient mounts a 7.5cm gun.

4.7cm PaK (t) auf Renault 35.R
Picture from pg.16, Panzerjäger, Horst Scheibert, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Atglen, PA, 1998

Modified artillery observation vehicles were also used in the artillery regiment. Some of these varients are pictured below.

Artillerie Panzerbeobachtungswagen auf 38H

Picture from  http://forum.axishistory.com

Used as observation vehicles in the artillery regiment.

Grosser Funk und Beobachtungspanzer auf Lorrain Schlepper (f)

Picture posted on http://forum.axishistory.com from Spielberger, 'Beute-Kraftfahrzeuge und Panzer der Deutschen Wehrmacht'

Renault Beobachtungspanzer UE(f) may also have been utilized. Picture from http://forum.axishistory.com.