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Originally Posted by Pibwl
Do you have any details, especially range and barrel length of 75 mm M.28? What bothers me, is a coincidence in designation with 80 mm gun, which was also a mountain gun, but with a barrel L/40 and a very decent range 13.1 km. According to Chamberlain, M.28 was manufactured in two versions: 76.5mm for Yugoslavia and 75mm for Romania, also unspecified variant was used in Czechoslovakia.
And another question is, if it was really used as infantry gun (directly supporting infantry). Unit 54 has a limited on-map range.
By the way, M.5/8 gun was Skoda as well, and also could be broken down and used as mountain gun.
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To be honest, I'm not sure, artillery really isn't my forte. But you may be right - the book I used as the source (Aralica: Hrvatski ratnici kroz stoljeća/Croatian warriors through the centuries) does have quite a few typos/editing errors - it's quite possible the 80mm M.28 was really a field gun.
EDIT: found details for 75mm M.28: barrel length 1.34m L/18, range 8.7 km.
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According to Chamberlain, also more modern 80mm Skoda M.17 mountain gun was used (range 11.4km).
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I've checked again, Chamberlain is right, but it was used in very small numbers.
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As an off-topic, since I can't send you a private message: do you know what camouflage was used on captured Somua tanks? I can only find a photo of a tank upgunned wih 6pdr, which shows only a flag on a turret, but no camouflage. Also, are there any photos of partisan Autoblinda or Sdkfz-222 with markings? - I'm asking for a sake of my colour pictures.
Regards
Michal
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Here I can help you more: the Somuas used the same camo as they had in German service. I can't tell the exact colours, but probably something like this:
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/images/somua.jpg
The only marking was a red star, replacing the Balkenkreuz.
Here's a photo of a captured AB41 (camo is described as "yellowish"):
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5563/blinda2ajs7.jpg
The only marking was "Tenk bataljon" written in white, on the right side of the hull, just below the turret.
No photo of the Sdkfz 222 exists - as I've mentioned in the first post, they were only captured when the Germans surrendered, and it's not know if they were ever used. But as a general rule, the partisans did not paint over captured vehicles.
The 6pdr Somua was one of a kind vehicle by the way (the gun was taken from a destroyed AEC mk II).