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Originally Posted by Mike Cecil
Well, yes, Dave, but I think I should explain that a little more.
We seem to be hijacking D's post, but what the heck, she's a big girl, she can take it!
PITA v PIAT: ...
... Now I don't know when the PIAT/PITA was declared obsolete (should go and search that out), but it certainly had the two names bestowed upon it in Oz at different times during its service with the Australian Army in WW2.
Mike C  |
Only 2 names? Reading of some accounts where the PIAT projectiles seemed to bounce off the later German armour, I would have thought it would have been christened with a number of other names, mostly disparaging. The acronym PITA, not referring to "tank Attack" may well have been one of them!
