Armoured Carrier, Wheeled - Indian Pattern

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Hanno, I'd put the salvage and use of 25-pdrs from the Wahine in the highly doubtful category. Removing the breech block means also removing the breech block buffer, striker case, and firing mechanism, all of which would need to be 'found' to reassemble the gun into working order, then locating sufficient of the correct cartridges and projectiles. Not saying it couldn't happen, of course, just that it was highly unlikely.

You should see what the Italian army did to make demilled Sherman gun barrels usable again. Or what the Isrealis did to beg, steal, borrow and modify weaponry to equip their army.

But like I said Mike, without further anecdotal evidence chances are the 25-pdrs were scrapped by the Japanese salvage company along with the ship.