The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Movietone newsreel item on a Heavy Artillery Regiment of the United States Army on manoeuvres. Shows the regiment's 240mm M1 Howitzers and M33 Prime Mover artillery tractors which are conversions of the M3 Grant tanks and self propelled cranes . The regiment on air evasion practice, assembly of the guns by cranes and the guns in action. The 240mm M1 was the largest towed field piece used by the US Army during the Second World War.
Right 3/4 front view of the prototype SP 25-pdr Yeramba; a self-propelled 25 Pounder gun mounted on a modified M3 General Grant tank chassis. (Official name: Ordnance, Quick Firing, 25 pdr Mark 2/1, o
The largest weapons around the Australian Task Force area at Nui Dat are American 155mm self propelled guns. Six of them which form a battery are part of the task force artillery support and come und
The 1st Australian Task Force based at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, has probably the greatest firepower back-up ever known to Australian troops fighting overseas. Besides its own bat
One of the most unusual Army parades to be seen in Townsville will be held tomorrow morning (Friday, May 3 1974) at Lavarack Barracks. The 4th Field Regiment, Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery, w
When Viet Cong (VC) are sighted by troops of the 1st Australian Task Force on operations in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, it is massive artillery support which usually levers 'Charlie' from dug-i
Item 1. On 25 Feb 1943 a parade of tanks of the 2/10th Aust. Armoured (Armd) Regiment was held for DMI. Shows the General Grant and General Stuart tanks on manoeuvres after the parade. Identified pers
