The 75-mm field gun wz. 1897 is a French 75-mm towed gun used in the Polish Army in the interwar period and at the beginning of World War II. The weight of the weapon in the firing position was 1,190 kilograms, the overall length (in the firing position) was 4.5 meters. The maximum firing range was about 11,200 meters, the rate of fire was up to 12 rounds per minute.
The presented gun is a version of the famous "seventy-five", produced at the Schneider factory for the needs of the French army, the same one that was one of the main guns of the French army during World War I. The first guns of this type entered the Polish Army together with General Haller's Blue Army, and another one was obtained from France in the early 1920s. Another 300 were purchased in 1924, and in the same year more copies were received from Romania. The 75 mm field gun wz. 1897 in the interwar period was the main unit of infantry support, which was most often towed by horse-drawn. A number of these guns were adapted in 1937 for towing by motor traction, replacing wooden wheels with metal ones with tires. C7P or PZInż cars were used as artillery tractors. Cake WZ. 34. It is believed that at the beginning of the September campaign in the Polish Army there were approximately 1,370 guns of this type.
