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This rare
example of Serbian 75mm M1907A was seized by Turkish Army
in 1912 at Salonika and likely assigned to one of the artillery
regiments of II Army Corps and was later captured by the British Army. It was
located in Iraq up to 2007, then it was gifted to
1-41 Field Artillery, US Army. It is actually located at Fort Stewart,
Georgia, USA. However. The unit had
paid for good reproduction wheels after it came in from Iraq in 2008 or so.
Unfortunately, later commands of the 1-41FA failed to care for the gun and
wheels so they are now unusable. It is displayed on
jacks today for this reason. In
February 1912, Serbia had ordered 160 guns of this model (40 batteries) from
the French company Schneider-Canet. Of these,
Schneider built only 60 guns at Creusot, while the remaining 100 were built by another French company, the Compagnie des Aciéries de la
marine at St Chamond. The gun preserved at
Fort Steward belongs to the latter group, as is clearly
evident from the markings on its barrel. Although
it is not available for the public to see because it is displayed
on an active US Army post, Ralph
Lovett recently had the chance to photograph it and was so kind to send
me some pictures for the site. |