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[edit] Merge from M101A1

M-56 Howitzer 105mm (Towed) on display at Fort Sam Houston, Texas (March 2007). According to the display sign, it was recovered north of Kuwait City in February 1991.

This appears to be the same gun called the M101 howitzer in the List of artillery page. I'm going to move this page to their and leave this as a redirect. Lisiate 01:43, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

It's not exactly the same gun, and the M101A1 was the howitzer in general use when I directed its fire a number of times in South Vietnam as a Marine Corps forward observer. But the differences were not operational, just designed to make it easier to machine, if I remember correctly. Seems like a sensible change to me.

Phil Stoner

Agree, these articles should be merged. Bukvoed 19:06, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Agree with merging the articles into M101 howitzer. --Edward Sandstig 23:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Already merged the two articles. Will attempt to reintegrate more of what was written on the M101A1 article into this article later today. --Edward Sandstig 01:23, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] M-65

Should no mention be made of the license production of the M2/M101 gun/howitzer in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as the M-65 (although some sources say it is M-56). I think it is quite significant that a country in the Communist-bloc license manufactured a US howitzer and it speaks exceptionally well about the quality of the design. 72.146.187.38 02:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)SAWGunner89

It was mentioned in the M101A1 article and apparently was lost during the merge of the articles. Fixed. Thanks. Bukvoed 08:02, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Yugoslavia had a fairly "good" relationship with NATO countries. Politically, it had positioned itself between Communist countries and Western nations (to Stalin's chagrin). As a result, Yugoslavia ended up using some NATO equipment. --71.172.37.93 (talk) 01:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)