EXHIBIT #25 (temporary display)

25-MM ANTI-TANK GUN FRANCE

(Canon leger de 25 antichar SA-L mle 1934)

This weapon, more usually referred to as the 34 SA, was the standard light infantry anti-tank gun of the French Army. It was very small and very light, as events in 1940 were to show, it was useless for its intended purpose. It had a very limited range of only app 1800 meters max, and could only penetrate the lightest and thinnest armor on tanks and armored vehicles. In 1939, some of these guns were issued to the British Army as a token of uniform equipment between the allies. The British soon sound that the guns were too light and flimsy for towing behind vehicles, and so the 34 SA became the first of the British portee anti-tank guns. As such they were used by infantry brigade anti-tank companies. After 1940, the Germans added captured 34 SAs to their inventory as the 2.5 cm Pak 112(f) but they had and made little use of them, and those few that were issued went to second and third-line units. In plain English, these guns were pieces of you-know-what.

DATA

Caliber: 25-mm (.98-in.)

Length: 70.9 in.

Weight: 1093.7 lbs

Shell weight: .7 lbs

Max range: 1970 yds

Muzzle velocity: 3115 ft per second

Traverse: 60 degrees

Elevation: 21+ degrees

Depression: -5 degrees