7.5cm F.K.16n.A. field gun brass shell case dated 1938 - found in a brocante at Lisieux Normandy

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7.5cm F.K.16n.A. field gun brass shell case dated 1938 - found in a brocante at Lisieux Normandy . The case is in good clean condition with super markings to both the base and primer.

The 7.5 cm Feldkanone 16 neuer Art field guns, or 7.5 cm FK 16 nA for short, were rebarreled WW1-era 7.7 cm FK 16 field guns in the 1930s to quickly provide the German Army the artillery pieces it needed; the rebarreling was done by the armament firm Rheinmetall. They had box trail carriages. Although they were used throughout the entire European War, they were meant to be used only as a stop-gap measure until new field gun designs were completed, thus they retained their original wooden spoke wheels, and thus they could not be towed by vehicles for quick transport.

The German First World War era 75mm FK field guns were all over Normandy. There was a 75mm FK field gun in a casemate at Le Hamel on Gold Beach, a battery of four 75mm FK 16 nA in field entrenchments at Breville and two in casemates at Coursellses on Juno Beach.