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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
75 mm field gun can refer to: French Canon de 75 modèle 1897; British 75_mm_Gun_M1917; Polish 75 mm armata wz. 1902/26pl This page was last edited on 5 June 2019, at ...
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.
World War I field artillery of France (11 P) Pages in category "World War I artillery of France" ... Peigné-Canet-Schneider mle 1897 gun carriage; Puteaux SA 18
United States: World War II 75: Type 95 75 mm field gun Japan: 2nd Sino-Japanese War: 75: Type 63 field gun Thailand: World War II 75: Type 90 75 mm field gun Japan: World War II 75: 7.5 cm FK 16 nA Nazi Germany: World War II 75: 7.5 cm FK 18 Nazi Germany: World War II 75: 7.5 cm FK 38 Nazi Germany: World War II 75: 7.5 cm FK 7M85 Nazi Germany ...