SURVIVING GUN FILE

Version francaise

USA

Light Artillery

75mm M1916 fieldgun

Contribution :

Bernard Plumier

Link to the artillery blog

Location :

USA

Aberdeen, MA

Aberdeen Proving Ground Ordnance Museum

This gun tires is a proof of a use posterior to the WW1. Tube markings : 'The Symington-Anderson Co - 1918 - 764Lbs - Nr 786 M.J.L.'

Rear view. Breech markings : '75mm Field Gun Model 1916 - M III'. The carriage is numbered 3014, in 1919. See the double recoil system.

Rear view on the split tail, one of the ambitious caracteristics of this gun."