75mm cannon fittd to b25 bombers in ww2

[Gil Boyd]

Unbelievable until you see it, the recoil on the airframe must have been amazing:

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[WarPig1976]

Puff's grandpa....Thud.

[Sentryduty]

As a retired infantry soldier I have always been a fan of aircraft that shows up on station with artillery fitted.

[browningautorifle]

shows up on station

Very handy when they're hidden between the rows in the grape fields...

[Sentryduty]

they're hidden between the rows in the grape fields...

And they weren't even good tasting grapes either, almost bitter.

[browningautorifle]

bitter.

That's too bad too...maybe it was the fertilizer they use.

[emmagee1917]

Hummm.....seven rounds apiece in 30 seconds . That's some fast shooting.
Chris

[Paul S.]

Personally, I would think those 75mm equipped Mitchell bombers would be very good at an anti-shipping role, and better suited than against ground targets. The present day AC-130 Spectre gunships have the cannon mounted in the side so that it orbits the target to engage instead of making a straight-in gun run as the Mitchells obviously did.

Having personally benefited from interventions from AC-47 Spooky and AC-119 Shadow aircraft I can tell you that their orbit engagements were efficient and effective.

[jmoore]

Japanese shipping mostly. Often freighters and troop ships. Should be quite a bit of old film footage available.

[CINDERS]

Yes they were designed for that A S role also look at the one that had I think 12 50 cals in the nose for GA role. The Germans had a long barreled 75mm on I think the HS 129
also they mounted a 75mm on the ME 262 which required a counter weighted tail