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Old August 21st, 2002, 03:52 PM
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But it did give it the versatility lacking in any other gun of it's type. Britain was well served by it's gun designers. The much-maligned 2pdr was a cracking little weapon for it's calibre, but changing over to the 6pdr in 1940-41 was probably not a good time to dislocate production! Hence we suffered a bit. However we certainly did better than the USA in this field. I'd go with the 17pdr rather than the 3" any day.

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