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138th FA at Fort Knox - This photo is only labeled with the following: 138th FA at Fort Knox. We need help identifying the people, equipment and date the photo was taken. John Trowbridge reports that this is a M-110 Howitzer (8 inch Self Propelled). BG (R) Doyle reports that this is B Battery of 2-138FA Annual Training at Ft. Knox in 1972. The battalion went to AT with Charlie and Alpha batteries manned with the M109s. Bravo was the 1st battery in the battalion to convert to the M110. COL (R) Jim Drake reports that this may have been 1st Battalion 623rd Field Artillery. As he believes that 1/623rd was the only KYNG Battalion to have the 8 inch artillery. COL (R) Alfaro reports that his book says that the 441st FA Bn organized in 1947 was initially a 105mm Howitzer Towed Battalion. On 1 Sep 1955 the battalion was converted to an 8" Howitzer Self-Propelled unit. They maintained this status until 1 October 1959 when they were designated the 3rd Howitzer Battalion 138th FA and also were converted to 155-mm Howitzer Towed, until 1 May 1968 when the unit was terminated. From the history of the Service Battery located in Harrodsburg.Page 400 of "The Paper Trail of the Kentucky National Guard". COL (R) Ralph Palmore reports "I have to agree with COL Drake. We got the M110's in 1971, but went to CP Pickett with truck drawn 8". Shot them there and turned them in. I left the Bn in fall of 1971. They went to AT in 1972 with the M110's. The 2/138th did help us convert since they had knowledge of the carriage etc. We knew how to shot, the moving we had to learn." LTC (R) Mike Sullivan reports that "the howitzer is a M110 but it kind of looks like it had already been converted from the M110 to the M110A1 with the extended barrel. I commanded Bravo Battery, 2d Bn, 138th FA with the M110A1's from 1976 to 1980. This barrel looks too long to have been the M110".
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