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The 75 mm pack howitzer was designed in the United States in the 1920s to meet a need for an artillery piece that could be moved across difficult terrain. Development began in 1920, and in August 1927, the weapon was standardized as howitzer, pack, 75mm M1 on carriage M1. Due to meager funding, production rates were very low; by 1933, only 32 ...
C20 Howitzer pack, 75 mm M1A1. on Carriage M8 (75 mm Pack Howitzer M1) C21 Howitzer, 105 mm M2A1. on mount M4, and M4A1. (M101 howitzer) C22 Parts and accessories for 3" materiel (except guns and carriage); 4.7" materiel; 60 Pdr. materiel (3-inch M1902 field gun, 4.7-inch gun M1906, BL 60-pounder gun)
The M1 ammo crate held a total of 1,000 belted or linked rounds packed in 4 M1 ammo boxes and the later M1A1 ammo crate held a total of 1,000 belted or 1,100 linked rounds packed in M1A1 ammo boxes. There were two .50 M2 ammo boxes to a crate (for a total of 220 belted or 210 linked rounds) with a volume of 0.93 cubic feet.
The 75 mm gun, models M2 to M6, was the standard American medium caliber gun fitted to mobile platforms during World War II. They were primarily mounted on tanks , such as the M3 Lee and M4 Sherman , but one variant was also used as an air-to-ground gun on the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber aircraft .
Type 31 75 mm Mountain Gun Japan: Russo-Japanese War: 75: 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 Greece / France: Balkan Wars / World War I: 75: QF 2.95 inch Mountain Gun United Kingdom / United States: World War I 75: 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone L/13 C/80 German Empire: World War I 75: 7.5 cm GebirgsKanone 06 German Empire: Balkan Wars / World War I / World ...
6-inch howitzer M1908 pre-WWI howitzer; 75 mm gun M1897A4, WWI-WWII era field gun, US-made version of French Canon de 75 modèle 1897; 75 mm howitzer M1/M116, 1920s-Vietnam era pack howitzer; 155 mm howitzer M1917 WWI-WWII era howitzer, a French Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider in US service
The armament of the M8 consisted of a new open-topped turret armed with a 75 mm M2 howitzer, later a 75 mm M3 howitzer. The M8 carried 46 rounds of 75 mm ammunition; 11 rounds at the right rear of the fighting compartment, 20 rounds at the left rear of the fighting compartment, 9 rounds in the left hull sponson, and 6 "ready" rounds stored ...
The M1897 guns used the same 75×350 mm R ammunition as the 75 mm gun M2/M3/M6 tank guns of the M3 Lee, M4 Sherman, M24 Chaffee, and 'gunship' version of the North American B-25 Mitchell bomber. The M2 was a L/31 gun, the M1897 was L/36, and the M3 was L/40.