page_title: 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10)
section_title: Organization and employment
hierarchical_section_title: 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10) / Organization and employment
caption_attribution_description: Soviet 152mm mm M-10 Model 1938 howitzer, displayed in Helsinki Military Museum. Photo taken on July 4, 2006. Source: Photo by me, User:Balcer.
context_page_description: 152-mm howitzer M1938 (M-10) was a Soviet 152.4 mm howitzer of World War II era. It was developed in 1937–1938 at the Motovilikha Mechanical Plant by a team headed by F. F. Petrov. Although production of the gun was stopped in 1941, it saw combat with the Red Army until the end of World War II and remained in service until the 1950s. Captured pieces were used by Wehrmacht and the Finnish Army. The latter kept the M-10 in service until 2000.
  In a tank-mounted variant, M-10T, the gun was mounted on the KV-2 heavy tank.
context_section_description: Under the organization of 1939, each rifle division had a howitzer regiment with a 152-mm howitzer battalion (12 pieces). In July 1941 these regiments were cancelled. The same fate befell 152-mm howitzer battalions of motorized and armored divisions.
  In 1944, rifle corps of the Red Army had one artillery regiment each. Those regiment consisted of five batteries (totaling 20 pieces), equipped with 152-mm howitzers, 122-mm or 107-mm guns.
  Reserve of the Main Command included howitzer regiments (48 pieces) and heavy howitzer brigades (32 pieces). Those could be merged to form artillery divisions.
  On 1 June 1941 the RKKA possessed more than thousand M-10s. Many were lost in the early phase of the war, combined with a decision to stop the production it meant only limited quantity remained in service; these remaining guns in dwindling numbers were used for the remainder of World War II. The M-10 was used against personnel, fortifications and key objects in the rear.
  Many guns were captured by the Wehrmacht early in the war, and adopted as 15,2 cm sFH 443(r). The Finnish Army captured 45 pieces and further 57 were purchased from Germany in 1944. In Finland the howitzer, designated 152 H 38, was issued to five heavy artillery battalions and actively used in battle. Finns rather liked the gun, but considered it somewhat heavy. After the end of the hostilities, the M-10 remained in the Finnish service; in the 1980s there were some considerations of modernizing it, but the idea was dropped; the guns were stored in the army depots until 2000 and then they were finally retired and scrapped.
  The surviving M-10 howitzers can be seen in various military museums and war memorials, for example in the:
  Museum of Artillery and Engineering Forces, Saint Petersburg, Russia,
  Brest Fortress,
  US Army Ordnance Museum,
  Helsinki Military Museum
  Hämeenlinna Finnish Artillery Museum,
  National Military Museum, Romania, Bucharest,
  Military Museum, Dej, Romania.
  Crisbecq Battery Museum, Saint-Marcouf-De-L'Îsle, France.
caption: M-10 howitzer, displayed in Helsinki Military Museum.
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