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The French 75 mm field gun is a quick-firing field artillery piece adopted in March 1898. Its official French designation was: Matériel de 75 mm Mle 1897 . It was commonly known as the French 75 , simply the 75 and Soixante-Quinze (French for "seventy-five").
In US service the mle 1897 was given the designation 75 mm gun M1897. [3] There were 480 American 75 mm field gun batteries (over 1,900 guns) on the battlefields of France in November 1918. [ 4 ] American industry began building the mle 1897 in the spring of 1918, but only 143 American-built guns had been shipped to France by 11 November 1918 ...
The Pak 97/38 (7.5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 97/38 and 7,5 cm Panzerjägerkanone 97/38 [2] [3]) was a German anti-tank gun used by the Wehrmacht in World War II.The gun was a combination of the barrel from the French Canon de 75 modèle 1897 fitted with a Swiss Solothurn muzzle brake and mounted on the carriage of the German 5 cm Pak 38 and could fire captured French and Polish ammunition.
The US decided early in World War I to switch from 3-inch (76 mm) to 75 mm calibre for its field guns. Its preferred gun for re-equipment was the French 75 mm Model of 1897, but early attempts to produce it in the US using US commercial mass-production techniques failed, partly due to delays in obtaining necessary French plans, and then their being incomplete or inaccurate, and partly because ...
Beginning in 1902 the 3.2-inch gun was largely replaced in combat units by the 3-inch M1902 field gun. However, 3.2-inch guns lingered in reserve and training roles. During World War I, the Army primarily used the French 75 mm gun instead of its own designs, which were mostly kept in the United States for training. The 3.2-inch guns were ...
The displaying of a 75mm gun model 1897 and its ammunition wagon by French artillerymen (in midnight blue uniform) to Scottish infantry officers (in khaki), at Bas Mesnil on the fringes of the Battle of Armentières on 21 October 1914. This relatively light and fast-firing gun was by far the most widely used by the French artillery (several ...
The Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider was a light field gun used by the French Army of World War I.It was created by modifying an export-model field gun built by Schneider et Cie at Le Creusot to fire shells from the family of 75mm artillery ammunition used by the Canon de 75 modèle 1897 and the Canon de 75 modèle 1912 Schneider.
Canon de 75 modèle 1897, a field gun (also 75 mm gun M1897 in US service) 5-inch gun M1897, a US coast artillery gun; 6-inch gun M1897, a US coast artillery gun; Winchester Model 1897, a shotgun; Webley-pocket M1897, a revolver