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- From: anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee)
- Newsgroups: soc.history
- Subject: 105mm howitzer against WWII tanks (was Re: 50 Years Ago: Thursday, 21 January, 1943)
- Message-ID: <11819@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 22:30:55 GMT
- References: <1991Dec9.022615.7834@cbnews.cb.att.com> <C17vLH.EJF@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
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- In <C17vLH.EJF@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) writes:
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- :"Before we got this gun [the M7 self-propelled 105mm] we were unable to
- :master the enemy tanks with our tanks... Then we came back with this new
- :development... Thanks be to President Roosevelt and the American arms
- :factories, we are getting all we want." - General Bernard Montgomery
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- I didn't realise that the allies used their 105mm howitzer to kill tanks ?
- Is this possible ? I have also heard that the British 25pounder could be
- used in an anti-tank role.
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- Anthony Lee (Time Lord Doctor) (These are my opinions !)
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