M27 105mm Recoilless Rifle in obat12

[Basileus Ioannis]

Originally Posted by DRG

I'll just make the end date 12/55 for now. A little longer or less doesn't make any differnce to the formations that used them but we've all missed the 75mm M20 RR Jeep for years and that allows the Mobile RR formations to got back to 1946 so that's in the OOB now.


Don

Roger Don, thanks. Re: the M20 75mm on a jeep, is that from the June 1945 T/O&E? The 1948 T/O&E shows two M20 75mm on tripods carried on one 3/4-ton Weapons Carrier truck per section, two sections per platoon, and only one jeep in platoon HQ with a .50cal AAMG. In T/O&E 7-15 change 1 dated 30 September 1952, they deleted one M20 75mm from each section, and added two M27 105mm jeeps to each section (2x75mm, 4x105mm platoon total). I had often wondered what happened to the 75mm RR jeep since I saw the ROCO 1/87th scale model of one as a kid; recently I found a web page discussing the French army use of 75mm RR jeeps. Thanks again,

John