Some time ago read an official history of US 'PT' boats in the Pacific.
What might be of interest here is that I seem to remember that in 1942 they experimented with fitting 37 mm guns to the front deck of these boats. In the US it was thought that the wooden decks could not withstand the recoil of a large calibre gun. Despite this they were obtained and fitted to the boats in Queensland where the necessary modifications were completed. This was done while they were completing their training before moving up.
As these guns were obtained from the Australian military might they have been some of these Dutch guns which to the Australians were of an orphan calibre that did not fit the local supply chain?
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12-02-05, 21:59
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