Polish OOB

[JohnT]

blazejos said:

3. Bofors 37mm Gun we have a bug too
was in two versions wz.36 and wz.37 for tanks with small improvments of performance.
weapon 013 should be named 37mm wz.36 L45 not L40 see in Swedish OOB that is the same gun weapon , 014 should be removed because 015 represents tanks version of bofors 37mm gun. Now we need only a improvment of date in unit and formation first this guns apear in polish army in 1936 because is named (Wzor 1936 what means Model from 1936 year)
see http://derela.republika.pl/weap2.htm#37

4. 40mm Bofors AA gun
First this guns came to polish army from Sweden in September 1936 than were made in polish fabric so date need corection polish gun has his own missing winter camuflage see icon 2807. You can too remove weapon 017 2 pdr AA-Gun because tis is bofors 40mm represents by weapon 025. Why 017 has worse performance I don't know?

Some further details.
The guns where still owned by Bofors while evaluated during 1936. The actual contract where signed April 16:th 1936.
The first 10 37mm guns where shipped February 17:th 1937 while the first 40mm where sent on June 22 1937, both shipments delivered by a freighter named Egon.


Weapon 17 is the Vickers Pom-Pom, in the Polish brigade.


Cheers
/John T.
Who spent the time not updating OOB's reading through Swedish export permits in the Foreign office archive.

[blazejos]

Thanks for intresting
you have a better information about delivery 37mm and 40mm guns from Sweden. I found another intresting informations abuot this gun. Polish buy in Sweden a license for both guns and made in factories. Polish production guns 37mm and 40mm was in prewar time sell to UK and 37mm to Romania. Polish Carpathian Brigade during fights in Tobruk in 1941 recive from british hands a polish made 37mm bofors guns what were buy in poland by British in prewar times.

[Marek_Tucan]

The 2pdr gun has lower performance as it should, it isn't Bofors 40mm but Vickers 40mm pom-pom using less powerful ammunition.

[blazejos]

I understud
I prewar polish army this gun 40mm Vickers was used only on ships and river monitors. Wasn't in land forces corect label should be 40mm Vickers or something because we don't use pounds for caliber of guns only metric units. But in post september campaign forces in England polish soliders use 40mm Bofors british version in OOB is a bug because they has this old vickers guns as a standalone and on trucks