25 mm APX modèle 1937

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Users

• Finland - 50 French 25 mm M/37 antitank guns were purchased during the Winter War, but only 40 of them were delivered in February 1940 through Norway. The remaining ten guns were captured by the Germans when they invaded Norway in the spring of 1940. About half of the guns, which had arrived during the Winter War, saw front line service during it and three of them were lost in battle. During the Interim Peace the Germans sold 200 captured guns to Finland. 133 of them were model M/34s and 67 were model M/37s, and they were designated 25 PstK/34 and 25 PstK/37, respectively. They were withdrawn from front line use by 1943.
• France - An unknown number were used by the French during the second world war.
• Germany - The Germans used a number of captured guns under the designation 2.5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 113 and these were used to arm Atlantic Wall fortifications in France and the occupied Channel Islands.
• Spain - 150 mle 1937 guns were sold to Spain by the Germans during 1943.

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