Italian AA Guns

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Are these 76mm Cannone da 76/40 guns ??

Images from EBay
Sturm78

[Dili]

Clive most probably captured equipment. I have no information of Italians having bought sound detectors from France or anyone else.

Sturm78, they seem to be.

[Clive Mortimore]

Hi Dili

Thanks. They are some of the better photos of the Sautter Harlé Mle 34 I have seen.

Clive

[fert]

Hi Sturm78,
76/45 Schneider mod 1911.
regards

[Sturm78]

Thank you very much for your help, fert

Regards Sturm78

[Dili]

How do you reconize a 76/45 ? i can only do it seeing the small recuperators(correct term?) below the breech like in this picture: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/76/45_Mod._1911

[Dili]

A picture of a 77/28 gun from ebay.de:



Emmanuel

I think this could be 75/27 AV

[Manuferey]

Yes, it could be a 75/27 AV based on the shorter length of the barrel in front of the rotational axis.

Emmanuel

[Dili]

Yeah that is an easier way to spot the differences.

[Manuferey]

Sketches of a map of a 4 x 75/46 Mod. 40 gun battery near Capua, of the open emplacements and of other buildings as well as pictures of this battery. (Source: US Manual TM 30-246 – Tactical Interpretation of Air Photos – 1954):




Emmanuel

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

An image from EBay: I think a 75mm Mle 1897 ex-french gun in italian coastal/AA service

Sturem78

[Manuferey]

Could it be in the Italian-occupied zone in southeastern France?

Emmanuel

[Dili]

Most probable. Or Tunisia. But they seem too clean for Tunisia

Edit: is this is the 75mm PF mle 15 know in Italy as 75/34? then Germans have been selling them to Italians since 1941. 29 Batteries so still a sizable number of guns. If at 4 guns per battery that means 116 guns.

24 were captured by Italy in Tunisia.

So this could well be Italy and not Southern France or Corse.

[jopaerya]

Here a list from the French batterie's in France .

Regards Jos

[Dili]

In 1940?