Forgotten Hope 2 is an award-winning World War II modification for Battlefield 2TM and is based on the original Forgotten Hope, a modification for Battlefield 1942TM, one of the most popular multiplayer games ever. Battlefield 1942TM featured land, sea and air combat in a way never before seen. It was the goal of the development team to maximize the game experience by adding both a realistic and enjoyable gameplay to FH and now to FH2.
During the first World War US Army purchased French 75 mm field guns to equip its expeditionary force. In the spring of 1918 US industries started domestically producing them, designated 75 mm Gun M1897, but only a few of these reached Europe before the end of hostilities. It remained in production and was iteratively improved with A2, A3, and finally A4 models.
While the gun itself had seen some minor changes, the A4 carriage had new pneumatic tyres, steel wheels, a lower profile and internal expanding brakes. This allowed the gun to be issued to motorised artillery units instead of horse-drawn ones, but didn't solve the major issue of the gun: its low maximum elevation.
With the start of WW2, large numbers of the US made M1897A4 guns were sent back to France. Approximately 1000 guns and a million shells would cross the Atlantic, and with the Fall of France, some of these were diverted to the remaining Free French forces under General De Gaulle.
The campaign in France had shown the 75 mm gun could be a capable improvised anti-tank gun, and most of the artillery pieces in Free French service had their shields cut down and seats removed to lower their profile and weight. Many were also mounted on trucks to compensate for the minimal traverse of the gun and to increase their mobility. Our Free French modified M1897A4 has been cut down by Seth Soldier from his Mle 1897 M38 model.
Learned quite a bit from this.