The Canone de 75 Mle 1897 ('Famous French 75') was a French field artillery weapon which introduced the quick-firing concept to artillery, making all other guns obsolete, used not just by the French army but also by the Germans, Americans, Poles, Portuguese, Greek, Romanian, Irish and several Baltic states. The Canone de 75 Mle 1897 was chambered in 75 mm calibre and fired a 7.24 kg shrapnel shell to a range of 8500 metres. The Canone de 75 Mle 1897 was used by the French army until 1940, and then by the Germans as a stopgap anti-tank weapon in 1941. The US Army adopted the Canone de 75 Mle 1897 in 1917 and continued using it until 1945, some being mounted on B-25 bombers as an anti-ship gun. Research Canone de 75 Mle 1897
The North American Mitchell B-25 was an American medium bomber used during the Second World War. The B-25 was a mid-wing cantilever monoplane powered by two Wright Cyclone R-2600-13 two-row radial air-cooled engines providing a top speed of 485 kmh and a range of 4240 km. The B-25 carried a crew of between four and six and was variously armed depending upon model but had an internal bomb-bay capable of carrying 3000 lb of bombs and 2400 lb of bombs on external wing racks and a 2150 lb torpedo partly in the bomb-bay. Research B-25
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