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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)
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 ...
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 ...
75mm Type 13, Type 14 and Type 17: copies of the Japanese Type 41 75 mm mountain gun [159] China: 75mm Type 46 Jin: copy of Type 94 75 mm Mountain Gun [citation needed] Sweden: Bofors 75 mm Mountain Gun: bought in large quantities [160] United States: 75 mm Pack Howitzer M1: supplied during Burma campaign [161] Soviet Union: 76 mm divisional ...
A Ukrainian serviceman fires a 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops at a position in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on September 13. - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii ...
The 75 mm M2 and M3 tank guns of the M3 Lee and M4 Sherman Medium tanks, the 75 mm M6 tank gun of the M24 Chaffee light tank and the 75 mm gun of the -G and -H subtypes of the B-25 Mitchell bomber all used the same ammunition as the M1897. The 75 mm Pack Howitzer M1 used the same projectiles fired from a smaller 75×272R case.