PosterBoy wrote:

"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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The caliber of the FK16 was changed in fact, the FK16 n/A was built from
1934 with new barrels to replace the 77mm FK 16's which were left over
from WW1 but in 1939 some 300 examples of the older gun were apparently
still in service being largely phased out by 1942. I'll agree that
few if any front line units would be so equipped and they seem mostly
to have been used for training.

Keith

Robert Nelson of the US 3rd Division wrote that at Anzio (he was there)
they used a captured "German 77" as an anti-tank weapon because they were
more effective than "our 57s."
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I expect putting it in quotes was the correct thing to do. I imagine this is
one of those cases where everyone calls them "77s" because that's what they've
heard the Germans have (although late war, every german artillery piece tended
to be an "88", at least if you believe the troops).

Guy