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Four batteries (16 guns) of 88 mm guns (Flak 18) initially reached Spain as AA with the Condor Legion in 1936, but it was soon used as anti-tank, anti-bunker and even for counterbattery fire. More guns were sent later, and some 88 mm guns were also supplied to Spanish army units.
One characteristic common to all the German recoilless guns, was that they used ordinary shells, albeit with a different cartridge to cater to the unique issues involved in the recoilless principles. This gun used HE shells from the 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz (Mountain Gun) 36 and the anti-tank shell of the 7.5 cm Feldkanone 16, neuer Art (Field ...
The French 75 mm field gun is a quick-firing field artillery piece adopted in March 1898. Its official French designation was: ... [19] and 7,5 cm FK 97(p).
In 1923, there were 568 wz.1902 guns in the Polish inventory. [3] Between 1926 and 1930 most surviving 76.2 mm wz.1902 guns were re-chambered to use the same 75 mm shells as the most numerous Polish field gun, the Canon de 75 modèle 1897. The guns were converted by the Starachowice Works and designated as the Armata 75 mm wz.02/26.
The 7.7×58mm Arisaka cartridge was the standard military cartridge for the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service during World War II. The 7.7×58mm cartridge was designed as the successor of the 6.5×50mmSR cartridge for rifles and machine guns but was never able to fully replace it by the end of the war.
The gun was then dismantled and moved to the northern part of the eastern front, where an attack was planned on Leningrad. The gun was placed 30 km (18.6 mi) from the city near the railway station of Taytsy. The gun was fully operational when the attack was cancelled. The gun then spent the winter of 1942/43 near Leningrad. [18]
The Swedish gun entered service in the Swedish Army under two distinct designations: luftvärnskanon m/29 (an extremely similar gun was produced few years earlier by German-affiliated HIH Siderius in the Netherlands [11]) and luftvärnskanon m/30, both produced either in 75 mm ("7,5 cm") and 80 mm ("8 cm") bore, depending on the order. [1]
The gun Jack Cornwell served in his Victoria Cross action on the forecastle of HMS Chester. Boy Seaman First Class Jack Cornwell was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for heroism in serving his gun on HMS Chester during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916. British 5.5-inch naval gun from World War II at Skansin fortress, Tórshavn, Faroe ...