Quote:The French 75AC (AC stands for "autocanon"= self-propelled) truly is self propelled artillery but it is unarmored. These were improvised, field-modified trucks mounting standard 75mm Art pieces (model 1897) set up on a 360° marine mount (called "affut crinoline"). They were secretly built in Morocco and Algeria in late '41, when French armament was being controlled by Axis commissions. They were used against the US in '42 and reorganized before being sent to Tunisia.
The trucks usually were civilian trucks and the mount was bolted to the rear deck. Some were protected by a few armored plates. 40 75mm shells were the normal provision for one such gun. They equipped the 63e and 64e RAA.
See photos and drawings attached.
Very good info.
Shad, would it be possible to add a page for each of the units so we can display this kind of info? For guns and tanks we can include (open-source) photos. For infantry maybe a brief about the size of the standard infantry platoon and the guns/other weapons they carried.
For everyone else; I don't have the expertise to fill any of these pages (part of why I'd like to see them). Are there enough volunteers willing to provide the info to make adding the pages worthwhile?
