40 mm Bofors AA guns made in GB and US

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Stellan Bojerud
Where did you find it? Mk I survivors are seldom found. Mk III on Mk II carriages we have several of.
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If the gun is in Volkel AFB (NL) it should be one of the KL Lua guns.
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Portugal sold them some years ago and I have come across such one at a British collector.

It is owned by a private individual living quite near to where I live. I don't know where he got it by I would almost certainly ruly out it is an ex-KL Lua gun (we lost ours in 1940). Portugual seems to be the most likely source, they held on to lots of WW2-vintage equipment until well into the 1980's. Like you noted, luckily many of these found their way into the hands of collectors.

H.