Hello everyone, can anyone point me in the direction of any sites that will contain this information? The 37mm M1A2; Weight in Action: 2.778 kg Weight in Transit: ???????????? Total Length of Gun: ????????? Height: ???????????? Width: ?????????? The weights I have so far for the 90mm AA Gun; 90mm M1A1; Weight in Action: 8.618 kg Weight in Transit: 11.09 kg 90mm M2; Weight in Action: 14.650 kg Weight in Transit: ????????????? Various sites say that 7.831 M1,M1A1 & M2 were produced, and one site says 2000 M1 & M1A1 were produced before the M2. I will be happy to display my findings and post up the full sets of data when complete. Thanks Yan.
Some of the sources footnoted in http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-9/CMH_Pub_10-9.pdf might be useful. Page 401 and a few that follow will be of interest. Some of the sources for sale here http://oldguns.net/catho.htm might also be of use. Some of the references listed here sound like they might be useful as well http://www.skylighters.org/hammer/footnotes.html
Sorry lwd, the info was not available, thanks for the help though. I am afraid to say that some stuff is just not available and the case is the same with other US Artillery; The 105mm M3 Howitzer is another weapon with scant data concerning weights. It was produced in three variants, M3, M3A1 & M3A2, now all three would have different weights; 105mm M3 (same carriage as the 75mm M3A3 Field Howitzer) 105mm M3A1 (new lighter carriage) 105mm M3A2 (with added gun shield) So after hours of searching the only weight I could find for all three Howitzers is 1.130 kg and that was for the M3A1, I was going to see if they all had extra weight when in transit but that would be the straw that broke the camel’s back. Regards Yan.
You might try corresponding with the people at: http://www.arsenalhistoricalsociety.org/museum/ They were very helpful to me in the past (ID'd my fathers souvenier rifle from a very brief description). The guns may actually have been made there and if not they may still have the specs. Of course if you can actually visit it's even better.
Hi, I have hit a blank when researching the US 3in M3 AA Gun, I have read the training manual back to front and visited more web sites then you can shake a stick at, but to no avail, I am so close in finishing the data and the stuff I need is; How many were produced? They were standardised in 1933, but what month? What type of Gun Sight did they use, the 90mm M2 had the M54 or M28 (not too sure) was it the same? Thanks for any help. Yan.
You might try contacting these folks: http://sill-www.army.mil/adamuseum/ Something hanging off this site might have what you want as well: http://www.airdefenseartillery.com/ada-army-historical-information-links.html The ADA historians contact info is there by the way. This site might also provide some clues: http://sill-www.army.mil/USAFAS/history.html
Thanks Lwd, the air defense site looks promising, I am going to e-mail a guy called David Christensen who looks the main man so I will let you kknow how I get on. Thanks for your help as it is most appreciated Yan.
