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The M3 gun motor carriage (M3 GMC) was a United States Army tank destroyer equipped with a 75 mm M1897A4 gun, which was built by the Autocar Company during World War II. After observing the new and often decisive use of armored vehicles on both sides during the French campaign of 1940 , the US Army decided that it required a 75 mm self ...
T1E4/M13 half-track – M3 based multiple gun motor carriage equipped with the Maxson M33 mount with two M2HB machine guns (5,000 rounds). The T1E4 prototypes had the hull sides removed for ease of working with the mount. These were reintroduced on production M13s. This was a development of previous T1s that had all been based on the M2 half ...
The 75 mm Pack Howitzer M1 as mounted could depress nine degrees, elevate 50 degrees, and traverse 22.5 degrees to each side. The vehicle had stowage for sixty rounds of 75 mm ammunition and, although it was not designed for anti-tank use, it had a high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shell that could penetrate 3 in (76 mm) of armor. The gun shield ...
An M3 is lifted out of a Sherman tank at 5th Indian Division's tank workshop near Taungtha, Burma, 29 March 1945 A restored Mitchell aircraft showing a 75 mm M5 gun below the four machine guns. The 75 mm gun, models M2 to M6, was the standard American medium caliber gun fitted to mobile platforms during World War II.
75 mm L/18.4. Half track: M3; Retired 1942 312 312 some received 2nd hand Equipped with 75 mm Pack Howitzer M1 [107] [108] T19 HMC "Howitzer Motor Carriage" Ordnance Department / Diamond T United States 105 mm L/22. Half track: M3; Retired 1942 324 324 Equipped with M2A1 gun [107] [108] To‘fon: Defense Industry Corporation Uzbekistan — 155 ...
The 105 mm Howitzer M3 was a U.S. light howitzer designed for use by airborne troops. The gun utilized the barrel of the 105 mm Howitzer M2, shortened and fitted to a slightly modified split trail carriage of the 75 mm pack howitzer. The howitzer was used by the U.S. Army during World War II.
At the same time, the 75 mm gun design was started by Watervliet Arsenal; the new gun was based on the 75mm field gun. [13] The design was unusual because the main weapon – a larger caliber, medium-velocity 75 mm gun – was in an offset sponson mounted in the hull with limited traverse. The sponson mount was necessary because, at the time ...
In 1941, field artillery units began converting to the new 105 mm M2 Howitzer, and some M1897s were removed from their towed carriages and installed on the half-track M3 gun motor carriage (GMC). The towed version and the M3 GMC was used by American tank destroyer battalions during operations in the North African and Italian campaigns.