The Canon de 12 cm L mle 1931 was a medium field gun made and used by Belgium in

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. Captured guns were taken into

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service after the surrender of Belgium in May 1940 as the 12 cm K 370(b) where it was generally used on coast defense duties. It was rather heavy for its size, but had a good range. The

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had large spades that had to be pounded into the ground to anchor the weapon in place.

References

* Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. ''Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945''. New York: Doubleday, 1979 * Chamberlain, Peter & Gander, Terry. ''Heavy Artillery''. New York: Arco, 1975 World War II artillery of Belgium 120 mm artillery {{artillery-stub

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