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Old 10-02-11, 00:30
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Default 32 pounder ATgun

Post war in UK, the 3.7 inch ordnance was used for the 32 pounder towed AT gun (and for the Tortoise). AT defence was by then an infantry task and any infantryman seeing the 32 pounder would immediately recognise that the thing was just too big to be concealed in an infantry position. Thus the successor to the 17 pounder was the recoilless 120mm BAT (and its descendents MOBAT, CONBAT and WOMBAT).

The Firepower museum in Woolwich UK has a 32 pounder, though I cannot recollect seeing it since they moved from the Rotunda.

Chris
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