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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 ...
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.
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)
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
With the approach of World War I the company received large ammunition orders from the Russian Empire and from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Bullet manufacturing building R-6 was built of brick; and money from wartime contracts was used to replace most of the old wooden framed buildings with brick and reinforced concrete ...
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M2 75 mm gun as mounted in medium tank M3. The 75 mm tank gun has its origins in the January 1937 specification for a light anti-aircraft gun T6 which would have supplemented heavy 3-inch guns and used the same range of 75x350R ammunition as the 75 mm field gun M1897. After the gun, which featured a 31-caliber barrel and a sliding block breech ...