25-pdr in Korea

[Herb Danter (RIP)]

Hi Tony:
Greetings from Canada. Referring to my gun drill manual, nothing is listed showing an extreme elevation as displayed in the photograph.
I think the GPO just gave the orders to load and fire.Charge 1 is usually used for the howitzer effect. The target must have been very close because at that trajectory there would be no arc of fire. (That's if the gun even fired at that elevation.)
Cheers
Herb

[Herb Danter (RIP)]

Hi David:
Greetings from Canada:
I have no idea what the horizontal range would be ( if any).It wouldn't be very great. I wonder if it was even fired in that position.
Cheers
Herb

[servicepub (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Herb Danter

I have no idea what the horizontal range would be ( if any).It wouldn't be very great. Cheers, Herb

Here is what the gun crew was aiming at! Obviously the gun crew did not like this truck and were determined to take it out at any cost. Not wanting to take the easy way out the crew has chosen to use indirect fire.



(with apologies to Herb Danter and Gunners everywhere - you too Mike)

[Wayne Henderson]

Great shot, caught at full recoil. At that angle they might be Duck hunting,
a bit of improvising perhaps, I would have driven back a couple of miles and dug a shallower hole... Aussie gunners could chuck a shell further than where that round will land.