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Old 02-10-08, 19:49
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US field Artillery of World War II by Steven J Zaloga pages 36/37:
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Following the heavy losses of US equipment in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge, Britain loaned 100 25-pdrs and 300,000 rounds of ammunition to temporarily equip US field artillery battalions until additional supplies arrived from the United States. Many of these were used in batallions of the US Ninth Army, which at the time was attached to Montgommery's 21st Army Group.
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Old 02-10-08, 21:30
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Hi Bram
Thank you for your reply. Is that an Osprey book?
I still can't remember where I read this info. or saw the picture I mentioned but pehaps it was browsing through a book in a shop because I have many Osprey books but not this one.
However, again thanks - you are helping me get to the bottom of this which has been bugging me for ages.
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Old 02-10-08, 21:56
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US field Artillery of World War II by Steven J Zaloga pages 36/37:
I'm surprised that not even the volume dealing with the Ardennes in the OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, 'Official History' series of the UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II - The European Theater of Operations - THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGE - by: Hugh M. Cole, published by: OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, WASHINGTON, D.C., 1965, or any of the other volumes of the above mentioned make any reference to "Britain loaned 100 25-pdrs and 300,000 rounds of ammunition to temporarily equip US field artillery battalions until additional supplies arrived from the United States. Many of these were used in batallions of the US Ninth Army..."

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Old 02-10-08, 22:37
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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.
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Old 02-10-08, 23:24
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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.

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Old 03-10-08, 00:05
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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.

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