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Originally Posted by redcoat2
cbo,
I guess there are two possible reasons why the 7.5 cm K.Gr. Pz. (p) appears on the technical sheet in 1944: (1) it was still in stock because it was not the gunners’ first choice or (2) it was a clerical error. The sheet may be accurate because the person that filled it in did not include the early HEAT rounds issued when the gun was first introduced. They may have been used up by 1944 whereas the AP round may still have been hanging around.
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If the gun was issued in spring/early summer 1942, the early HEAT round - the one without a prefix - was probably no longer in production. IIRC this was the round introduced in the summer of 1940 and withdrawn again early in 1941 after combat testing in Africa. The Hl/A arrived in the summer of 1941, apparently.
Curiously, the Hl/A, B and C are all mentioned for the PaK 97/38 and the PaK 40, while only the Hl/C for the 7,5cm KwK 37 L/24 is mentioned.
It would appear to be an inconsistency..?
As for the Polish AP round - it is anybodys guess. Could be that the people compiling the sheets just copied the ammo data off the available manuals, som being old and others more recent. Who knows
cbo