This color educational/promotional film is about the Bofors 10.5 cm Field Howitzer L/28. The Internet has scant information on the L/28, but it was apparently designed for rapid movement and positioning, and the narrator notes that it was intended to be positioned quickly so as to hold off a paratroop or partisan type attack. Whereas prior to WWII Bofors had developed a 10.5 cm howitzer (also known as the Model 1924), this model appears to be different and may have never gone into volume production. Like the M1924, this howitzer was designed for motor traction with rubber-rimmed steel wheels. It had a firing platform that gave it 360° traverse. This gun appears to be a light version of the 10.5 cm kanon m/34, a heavy field gun produced in Sweden and also designed for motor towing. The m/34 was a development of the earlier 10.5 cm Cannon Model 1927, with the carriage being used by various Bofors 15 cm howitzers of the 1930s. No copyright but this is circa the 1950s/1960s.
Opening titles: The Bofors 10.5 - CM Field Howitzer (:07-:15). Truck goes over a bridge. The Bofors 10.5 - CM Field Howitzer is fired. It is then shown broken down into pieces. The legs are first and slowly the entire CM Field Howitzer is pieced together by Bofors technicians. Parts of the gun and its features are explained. CM Field Howitzer spins (:16-2:59). The CM Field Howitzer is shown almost complete, the barrel is then added. A hand pulls down to demonstrate firing. Loading tray. A man pushes down on it. The main body of the CM Field Howitzer is shown. The front of the CM Field Howitzer is shown and parts and pieces are explained. Total weight of the gun is 2.6 tons (3:00-5:56). Animated diagram shows supporting plate and the CM Field Howitzer spinning 360 degrees upon it. How to prevent it tipping over is explained. Gun is moved by a military tractor. Swedish or Swiss soldier walks through mud, waves the tractor over. Gun is towed through dirt and mud (5:57-7:46). Tractor gets stuck in the mud. Artillerymen head towards the CM Field Howitzer and start to unhook it from the back of the tractor. The soldiers push it through the mud and muddy water. Tractor is now on dry land and it pulls the CM Field Howitzer through brush (7:47-9:49). Soldiers move into position and unhook the CM Field Howitzer from the tractor. The CM Field Howitzer is ready to be used as the final preparations are made. CM Field Howitzer spins and faces the direction the men want (9:50-11:36). The men move the CM Field Howitzer back around again. Ammunition is prepared for the weapon. Soldiers move the barrels and then fire the weapon (11:37-13:01). Diagram shows how the CM Field Howitzer can fire in certain directions. A radius of gunfire is also provided. The CM Field Howitzer is fired by the soldiers. Ammunition is grabbed by the men. The different types of shells that are placed in the CM Field Howitzer are explained via an animated sequence. The sequence also details the specific use of each type of shell and the trajectories utilized in attack (13:02-15:33). CM Field Howitzer is ready to be fired. One artilleryman pivots the weapon and then fires. He reloads it. Animation shows the weapon fired. Soldiers fire the CM Field Howitzer. Multiple explosions on the ground from direct hits (15:34-17:35). Tractor pulls the CM Field Howitzer. Soldiers get the weapon unhooked and prepared. The gun is fired multiple times (17:36-19:02). End logo (19:03-19:07).
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