The US WWII M1 "Long Tom" 

I did a couple of stints at P&E Port Wakefield during my RAEME career. At that time we used the carriage and cradle to mount various ordnance for test firing - to my knowledge certainly as late as 1990. The carriage and cradle was a great bit of gear for this purpose due to its strength and the adjustability of the recoil system, meaning we could use it to test quite large naval calibres. The arty crews were not fond of taking it off the battery though as using the screw jacks and ratchets for the bogie to jack the gun back up for travel was very hard work. One of my jobs whilst there second time around was to design a system that largely relied on our front end loader for the 'back breaking stuff'. It was nice to make the lives of the arty guys just a little bit easier. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Jason.

Yay the Long Tom! My grandpa's field artillery battalion used those guns. He said the trucks used to tow the guns and ammo were huge! They saw 300 days of combat from June 1944 to April '45.

The Wyoming Army National Guard operated the 8" (203mm) version up until about the mid-1970s when the converted to the M 110 self propelled 8" howitzer variant.

"This is the M1" -Every American Ordinance Designation committee ever

I’m American and had no idea you guys had all these and are preserving them. The host knows his stuff too.

A Long Tom battalion withdrawing through Bastogne and 'persuaded' to stay was one of the things that saved the 101st Airborne Division. Great range, great accuracy. The surrounded division held in large part due to the fires its artillery -- organic and borrowed -- were able to concentrate at trouble spots. The Germans helped by launching piecemeal attacks on the Screaming Eagles' perimeter.

Made a 1/ 72 model of this and showed it to a neighbor who crewed the Long Tom in WW2!

Australia kept all this stuff to protect themselves from all the critters trying to kill them down there! Awesome video!

My father was in a 155mm Long Tom unit in Italy. 173rd FA Battalion. Made up of 32nd ID units that were split off when the Division went from the Quad to the Triangular setup. Naples area to the Po Valley. They were in Vicenza in May 1945. Which is were the 173rd Airborne would be much later. Which complicates internet searches.

Site no longer works but about 10 years back someone was selling a Long Tom I have no practical use for one but man I did want it. It's beyond impressive.

The 155mm and 8in guns were also used as self propelled guns on the M4A3 HVSS chassis which were developed at the end of World War 2 and used in Korea.

My dad (UK) used one of these at the end of 1944 onwards after the RAF and USAF bombed his 7.2 Howitzer out of existence! He used a Gardner Scammell gun tractor variant which he loved to drive!

I love this series of briefs; keep 'em up, please~!

G'day Jason, Thank you for sharing your astonishing knowledge with us all. I was absolutely certain that your surname was JANES. On ya Digger!

My dad bought me a model of this gun in 1960. The model also had the tracked tractor with canvas top. In those days it was OK to have toy guns and us kids looked up to our fathers who fought in the war.

There is am M1 on M1 carriage at the entrance road to the Port Wakefield Proof Range in South Australia.

You do exellent job!we watch you from Greece.you are the best!

Cobra golf actually made a driver called the Long Tom, they made a few models over the decades and the last one was in 2012 I believe.

Incredible video! The most in-depth and comprehensive briefing I've seen on this or any other artillery piece. I was fascinated with large artillery pieces as a child, and the "Long Tom" was a favorite. Thanks!

What a beast compared to a modern system like the M777. I guess they weren't as concerned about scarpering away from counter battery fire back then as they are now?

I believe the "turntable" equipment was intended primarily for use in the secondary role of Coastal Defense.

Another excellent display

When you’re in the US Army in WWII and your friend says “it’s over by the M1!” But you don’t know if he’s talking about the: M1 Rifle, M1 Carbine, M1 SMG, M1 155 Howitzer, M1 120 AA gun, M1 40MM AA gun, M1 Bayonet or M1 mortar.

Thank You

They used to have a long Tom in a local museum in the town I grew up in. I used to go there a couple of times a year and was amazed by the size of it. If I’m not mistaken it moves together with the huge collection of American WW II military equipment to the museum in Overloon in the Netherlands

Grandpa had a battalion (16) of them in Bastogne. Nice seeing one up close. Thanks

When I was a little kid, maybe around 1955?, I had a model of this gun. Didn't know a thing about it, except what the model company put on the box, but it sure won a lot of wars for me against my fellow enthusiasts. I even wore my plastic olive drab "steel helmet".

I was in U.S. Marine Corps artillery in the late 1980s and I think (or we heard of) the U.S. Army having a gun called the Long Tom, which was 175mm gun (not howitzer) that cold fire a shell 30 km (the range of my M198 155mm towed howitzer was about 13 km with normal rounds). I did not get the idea that the Long Tom was achieving 30km range with a rocket assisted projectile (RAP) round, but maybe they were using RAP rounds.

One day I'll get around to finishing my updated 8 inch howitzer from AFV Club as well as the M-4 High Speed Tractor from Hobbyboss that usually towed these guns.

Another great equipment video.

Most excellent! Just kinda stumbled onto your video. Now I'm gonna try to find more of your content.

love this series

Love to see a return of workshop Wednesday please

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🎖️🏆💪🤗 Thank you for sharing this

The Long Tom is a classic. Battle Tech included a version in their IP.

Excellent video. I have family photos of my grandfather with a variant of this gun in WW2. Thank you

keep the videos coming - loving them all

Great work, Jason 👍

You can also have gun/howitzer which is what most modern guns are … long barrel but can also fired at high angle. Usually on a low charge.

When I read long Tom I immediately thought of the 175 from nam. I’ve always heard that called the long Tom, didn’t know we had a 155 long Tom as well. God I love big guns

The Australian Army bought some of these second=hand from the Italin Arm to proof fire 155mm ammunition in the 1980s when they adopted the M198 gun. They were stored at Port Wajefuekd in South Australia and were held by tha RAAOC rather than the Artillery. They were never deployed as they were obsolete.

Excellent as always!

Thank you Jason. This is very good.

Great video very informative, took a bit to atune my ear to the accent

Superbement intéressant........

I just get that feeling of grabbing the CRC and some sandpaper to clean up all that rust..

Thanks for doing this overview. My father was an officer in the 978th FA Battalion and landed in Normandy with his "Long Tom" unit on June 26, three weeks after D-Day.

Recoil "70 inches" is equal to about 1.78 meters.

Me: "And the M2A2? The M3?" "The M59" "Yeah, that was my next guess..." freaking U.S.Army nomenclature.

I have a metal model of that gun, that I bought when I was a kid

Great stuff. However, some of the exhibits needs some care. They could do with some cleaning up the rust and a new fresh lick of paint.

Idk why just love yhe wheels

Greetings from Poland.

I dig them BIG GUNS!

Thanks :)

I got a french brochure for swiss arms in around 1900 and a 1882 revolver with an extended barrel was referred to as "long tom."

I need this long Tom to tow behind my M4

Is it to much effort to put a little Cosmoline on the breech?

45 cal is quite long given the best Guns today are 52 ish calibres :) Love the video btw- very knowledgeable:)

Very interesting and thanks for your efforts. Might I suggest a drop of oil/grease may help.

You'd expect a 203mm AP shell traveling a thousand yards would have enough kinetic energy to penetrate more than a twohundred millimeters of armor plate. Did the AP round havexan explosive filler?

I saw a S,P Artillery that was barapefbst on a M41 Walker Bulldog tank M108 I think in N,J National Gard storage yard was beat up don't know where it went sc

cant wait forthe M-Fiftynoooin love you guys, no offense intended

The descriptions should add a bit of the provenance of the artefact. This example clearly came from Europe based on tbe NATO camouflage and German style tail lights.

Never seen "interrupted threads" prior, but makes purrfect sense and The Kitty likes it 🐈 *see what I did there?😸

Noice!

this is not a criticism but just an observation the gun looked dry had it been outside the breech mech had surface rust in the uk we have are fair share of rain sometimes too much and i get through a lot of spray lubes to keep my bikes as good as i can

omg the rust and lack of grease.

Lubrication. Corrosion prevention. Viable concepts.

Okay guys send leaks in warthunder headquarters

were there related to the british M40 155mm gun? looks practically the same..duxford imperial war museum has one.

You needed a bloody big spanner

Is this a Tellie commercial/ your talking to fast

King of Battle right?

you better put some oil on these things they are rusting away !

As a rule of thumb a big gun will penetrate its own calibre at 1,000 Yards subject to shell design. That said if you a long range Gun are firing at a Tank at that close things are pretty desperate.

I can't imagine that a little grease or oil on some parts of the machine would be a major disadvantage. 🤨

Too bad there's that big old ugly weld on the breech block. It's not like you can run down to the sporting goods store and pick up some rounds for it.

M1?

kaboom!

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Oh wow my wife's been talking about me

The gun that the Allies really didn't like was the German 88. The gun that kept Germans awake was the "Long Tom."

IT'S AN M1

My Dad's gun in WW2

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A little too big for my nimble neighborhood watch.

How come that M114 is all rusted? When we operated onto one, I could guarantee you that rust was impossible!

If this gun was Russian there would still be a 1000 of them sitting in the desert somewhere (probably behind the 6000 M101 105mm) being looked after by a pensioner and an asthmatic dog, just in case.

I thought Australia has used the metric system since 1966? Not sure why the measurement of inches was used in the video as a metric measurement is more meaningful in Australia. Overall the video was informative.

His endings need some better refinement, he quits the commentary and leaves you hanging! Such a poor presentation and presenter. This guy needs to learn to say hello and goodbye! Or Thank You!

You guys need some CRC spray.

The Westerbelt Board did great work on US artillery

Austti can't say 155. It sounded like 1445 mm. One fourve fourvevefiv

0:48) 24.5 and 45 calibers long. What is the length of a caliber? 2:09) Also called the interrupted screw.

Question. Did the US Army have a nuc round for this? Anyone.

Is that one of the guns that used to live in a "scrap-yard" between Brisbane and teh Gold coast? I am told that one of those guns ended up decorating the front of a small shopping center nearby. Not surprisingly, the place was called "The Big Gun" There used to be a LOT of interesting WW2 stuff around in South East Queensland. Ex-US Army "semi-trailer" buses operated by the Hornibrook Highway bus Company. Scammel prime movers and artillery tractors ( the Brisbane city council operated couple as recovery vehicles for broken-down trams. Several DUKW specimens converted to "campers" and usually with brightly-coloured paint jobs. Endless Ford and Wylies jeeps, An abundance of "Bren" carriers turned into farm tractors. The M3 Medium tanks parked in the bush where Garden City shopping centre would be built. The Matilda (sans turret) used for decades by the Redcliffe City Council as a bulldozer at the city dump, Also in Redcliffe,an M3 medium and a couple of turret-less Matildas, parked on a lot opposite the Woody Point Ice Works. All, long gone, as well. The LVT4 (bright yellow) with the drill rig used to survey the sea-bed prior to the constriction of the Houghton Highway, between Redcliffe and Brighton. Last seen in a "wrecker's yard" near Bald Hills in the1978. The "Tracked Truck" that a bunch of us hauled fromf the scrub out on the southern bounds of Brisbane. The example at Pucka may be it, or may not. Allegedly, only one or two prototypes were ever built The civvie-built "half-track": Carrier running gear under a Ford "Blitz".. Then, there were the aircraft. Up until the 1980s, there was an aircraft "graveyard" just outside Toowoomba. It featured a Vickers Viscount airline fuselage, but a brief poke around courtesy of the "owner"revealed the rear turret from a Lincoln bomber and bits of Ansons, Wirraways, Boomerangs, etc. All "gone", now. I am beginning to suspect that the obliteration of the "physical' materials of past wars is an international conspiracy. Think: Leopards filled with concrete and left to rust as "memorials, F-111 airframes bulldozed en masse into a trench. That sort of thing.

As usual an excellent presentation always enjoy your knowledge of the museum pieces.

Rust in the breach 🙂‍↔️🤨😡