The Dutch were some of the first operators of the gun but these were not part of its local defense - instead, with its interests in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia), the guns were shipped overseas for colony defense work where their capabilities were better suited. Other pre-war customers included Belgium (who fielded the gun as the "Canon de 75 modele 1934") and Turkey. Since Belgium had no need for the breakdown quality seen in the original gun, their version was completed as a single-piece lacking the feature. The box trail was, however, revised to feature a folding section for reducing overall length when towing / transporting and rubber-tired steel disc wheels were also used. Germany purchased a batch of twelve guns for evaluation and some training of artillery crews and recognized the gun as the "7.5cm Gebirgshaubitze 34".
At the outbreak of World War 2, and with the failed Dutch defense in the Pacific, the overseas stock of Model 1934 guns fell to the conquering Japanese who promptly put them back into action. They were used by their new owners (from 1942 onward) until available ammunition stocks were expended. Likewise, in the European Theater, the Belgian guns arranged to protect the approaches from the Ardennes Forrest were captured by the advancing Germans during May-June of 1940. Despite given an official designator of 7.5cm Gebirgskanone 228(b), this stock was scrapped.
Beyond the named operators of this gun, there was also use by Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria (as the "Model 1936"), China, Paraguay and Switzerland (as the "7.5cm L/24") at some point or another.
The complete system weighed 2,045lb and its barrel held a length of 5.10 feet. The weapon fired a 14.5lb projectile at a muzzle velocity of 1,500 feet-per-second out to ranges of 9,300 meters. The mounting hardware allowed for an elevation span of -10 to +50 degrees and traversal was 8-degrees left-right from centerline.
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