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The 75 mm gun, models M2 to M6, was the standard American medium caliber gun fitted to mobile platforms during World War II. They were primarily mounted on tanks , such as the M3 Lee and M4 Sherman , but one variant was also used as an air-to-ground gun on the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber aircraft .
The M1897 guns used the same 75×350 mm R ammunition as the 75 mm gun M2/M3/M6 tank guns of the M3 Lee, M4 Sherman, M24 Chaffee, and 'gunship' version of the North American B-25 Mitchell bomber. The M2 was a L/31 gun, the M1897 was L/36, and the M3 was L/40.
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.
75 mm gun M1917 – copy of British gun re-chambered for French cartridge, produced for export; QF 2.95-inch mountain gun – imported from Britain, used in Philippines; 75 mm gun M2/M3/M6; M116 howitzer (75 mm) – also known as "75mm Pack Howitzer M1" 76 mm gun M1; M101 howitzer (105mm) – still used in US and worldwide as late as in 2014 ...
The need for a new medium tank to match the German Panzer IV's 75 mm (2.95 in) turret gun led to the development of the M3 Lee, designed first to mount a 75 mm (2.95 in) gun in the right sponson. This configuration had been tested on an M2; the experimental vehicle was designated T5E2. [16] An M3 medium tank, the successor to the M2
The original 75 mm Gun M6 L/39 was replaced with a French D-925 90 mm low pressure gun, with a co-axial 0.50-inch (12.7 mm) M2 heavy machine gun. The bow gunner position was eliminated in favor of ammunition stowage.
75 mm Gun M2/M3/M6: 1×12.7mm Browning M2HB and 2×7.8mm Browning M1919A4: 30.3: 298: 193? 5: M4 with flotation screen and propeller Ram Badger flame tank: 1941: 87: QF 6-pdr: Wasp II flamethrower and 2×7.62mm machine guns: 29: 298: 232? 5: later versions had flamethrower replacing main gun Sherman Badger flame tank: 1942: 76: 75 mm Gun M2/M3/M6
The 3-inch gun M5 was an anti-tank gun developed in the United States during World War II. The gun combined a 3-inch (76.2 mm) barrel of the anti-aircraft gun T9 and elements of the 105 mm howitzer M2. The M5 was issued exclusively to the US Army tank destroyer battalions starting in 1943.