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The French artillery entered the war in August 1914 with more than 4,000 Mle 1897 75 mm field guns (1,000 batteries of four guns each). Over 17,500 Mle 1897 75 mm field guns were produced during World War I, over and above the 4,100 French 75s which were already deployed by the French Army in August 1914.
Large numbers of 75 mm guns were captured by Germany after the French defeat in 1940. Guns in German service were called: 7.5 cm FK 97(f) - These were un-modernized mle 1897 guns. Some were sold to Axis satellites, some were converted to 7.5 cm Pak 97/38 anti-tank guns and others were integrated into Atlantic Wall defenses. [7]
The armament of the French field artillery in 1914 consisted almost entirely of one gun model, the 75 mm model 1897: the total allocation was 4,986 75 mm guns, of which 3,680 were part of the battle corps deployed in France [80] and 364 were in the fortifications (the other 75 mm guns were used for training, in the colonies or in the reserves ...
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 ...
French 75 provided mobility and rapid fire but not enough range for the new war. The long barrel recoil technology incorporated by the French into the 75 mm field gun revolutionized artillery and made previous artillery obsolete. However, early in the war, the French over-relied on this gun under the assumption that it was the only artillery ...
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.
75 mm gun M2–M6 M2, M3, M6; M1841 mountain howitzer; M3 howitzer lightweight 105 mm howitzer for airborne troops; 3.2-inch gun M1897 pre-WWI field gun; 3-inch M1902 field gun pre-WWI field gun; 4.7 inch Gun M1906 pre-WWI field gun; 6-inch howitzer M1908 pre-WWI howitzer; 75 mm gun M1897A4, WWI-WWII era field gun, US-made version of French ...
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, and most American batteries used French-built 75s.