America's Munitions 1917-1918United States. War Department
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America's Munitions 1917-1918
United States. War Department
United States. Army -- Supplies and stores; Weapons; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Equipment and supplies
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| 1918 |
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|July.|Aug.|Sept.|Oct.|Nov.| Dec.|
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75-mm. gun, model 1897 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1
75-mm. gun, model 1916 | 2 | 60 | 42 | 51 | 11 | 45 | 251
75-mm. gun, model 1917 | 61 | 55 | 130 |211 |110 | 55 | 839
75-mm. antiaircraft gun| 2 | 16 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 100
3-inch antiaircraft gun| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1
4.7-inch gun | 15 | 15 | 28 | 72 | 50 | 44 | 224
155-mm. howitzer | 1 | 8 | 39 | 63 | 65 | 100 | 276
5-inch seacoast gun | [13]|[13]| [13]|[13]|[13]| [13]| 28
6-inch seacoast gun | 4 | 1 | [13]|[13]|[13]| [13]| 92
155-mm. gun | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 16
8-inch howitzer | 0 | 23 | 27 | 33 | 13 | 15 | 191
9.2-inch howitzer[14] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |[14]0
240-mm. howitzer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1
8-inch seacoast gun | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 22
10-inch seacoast gun | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
12-inch gun | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3
12-inch seacoast mortar| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 13
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Total | 85 |180 | 271 |464 |276 |277 |2,058
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[13] Project complete.
[14] No deliveries made by Bethlehem Steel Co. on U.S. Army orders
until after signing of the armistice because of priority given to
British orders placed before the American declaration of war.
By "complete units" is meant gun body complete, carriage, and recoil
mechanism or recuperator. Units are given as complete when their
component parts were complete, although the actual assembly of these
parts at a common point, testing, and final delivery usually required
from two weeks' to two months' additional time.
The 5-inch, 6-inch, 10-inch, and 12-inch seacoast guns and the 12-inch
seacoast mortars were taken from the fortifications and modified for
use with mobile carriages, all above 6 inches for railway mounts.
The 75-millimeter gun, model 1897, was the approved model for active
service in France. Model 1916 and model 1917 were used for training
purposes both in the United States and in France.
_Production of mobile artillery (complete units), Apr. 1, 1917,
to Nov. 11, 1918._
[Including all produced for France and Great Britain in United
States.]
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