PaK 97/38

[redcoat2]

cbo,

thanks for looking into the mystery of the AP production figures in the table I posted. I’ve read in a couple of places that the Germans produced AP rounds for the Pak 97/38 – or its predecessors the 7,5 cm FK 231(f) and FK 97(p) - but I don’t know of any hard evidence.

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.

Cheers,

redcoat2