Artillery in Canadian support: British 3rd Super Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery

British Artillery supporting Canadian Operations

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3224989)

3rd Super Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, supporting a 1st Canadian Army attack with a 240-mm M1 Howitzer.  It has a 22 foot barrel and fired 360 pound shells into the Siegfried defences and on to the Rhine,  8 Feb 1945.  This howitzer could fire a 360 lb (160 kg) high explosive projectile out to a range of 25,225 yards (23,066 m).   The M1 howitzer saw considerable action during the war in Europe due to its effectiveness against difficult targets such as heavy concrete fortifications.

(IWM Photo, BU 1374)

3rd Super Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery, 240-mm M1 howitzer and crew, firing on German positions in the Dutch city of Blerick on the west bank of the Meuse, 3 Dec 1944.

(US Army Photo)

240-mm M1 howitzer of Battery `B', 697th Field Artillery Battalion, just before firing into German held territory. Mignano area, Italy, 30 Jan 1944.  The 240-mm howitzer M1, popularly nicknamed the "Black Dragon", was a towed howitzer used by the American and British forces during the Second World War.

(Jason Long Photo)

Rear view of a 240-mm M1 howitzer at the U.S. Army Field Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

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