"American Artillery"

[bram risseeuw]

Hi Gerry,

yes it is an Osprey book: New Vanguard 131

I seems Mark W Tonner has his doubts, but Steven J Zaloga is most of the time very well informed and official publications are not always as complete or correct as they pretend.
An example are the official lists of the "Quantities of Lend-Lease Shipments"
I can not find deliveries of 105 mm howitzers on those lists, while I know for sure a lot were delivered by lend-lease.

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally Posted by bram risseeuw

Hi Gerry,

yes it is an Osprey book: New Vanguard 131

I seems Mark W Tonner has his doubts, but Steven J Zaloga is most of the time very well informed and official publications are not always as complete or correct as they pretend.
An example are the official lists of the "Quantities of Lend-Lease Shipments"
I can not find deliveries of 105 mm howitzers on those lists, while I know for sure a lot were delivered by lend-lease.

I have no doubts as to Steve Zaloga's findings and I am well aware that 'official publications' sometimes leave much to be desired, I just merely meant that I find it surprising that the supply of 25 pounders to Americans has never popped up before in anything that I've read or studied.

Cheers

[bram risseeuw]

Sorry Mark I got the wrong impression, no hard feelings I hope.
By the way do you have the figures of the lend-lease 105 mm howitzers M2A1What I know: UK 16, China 476, France 239, Latin America 223 (figures same book as before). My question: how many 105 mm howitzers were delivered to the different Latin American countries (105 mm ammunition was delivered to Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela).
Also 18 105 mm M3 howitzers were delivered to Brazil.

Cheers,
Bram