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Photograph 009288 Second World War, 1939-1945Australian Pressmen tour Malaya. Man handling an Anti-Tank gun. A.I.F. in Malaya. (Negative by M. Nichols). The gun featured in this image is a captured Italian 47mm dual-purpose gun. Many of the
020787 Accession Number: 020787
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These unidentified men of the 3rd anti-tank Regiment pose over the shield of their Bofors 37mm anti-tank gun.
Known formally in British Commonwealth service as the 'Ordnance QF 37mm Mk I', and featuring a distinctive 'pepper pot' muzzle on the end of the gun barrel, these rare Swedish designed and made anti-tank guns were sometimes issued to the Australian anti-tank units during the early stages of the Second World War in North Africa, in lieu of the 2 pounder anti-tank guns.
Firing a slightly larger 40mm diameter shell, the latter were the standard issue British Commonwealth anti-tank gun in North Africa from 1940 to mid-1942 until increasing thicknesses of armour on the enemy German tanks made them ineffective in their anti-tank role. They were replaced by the larger and more capable Ordnance QF 6 Pounder gun, which fired a 57mm high velocity shell.
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020787
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Colour: Black & white
Date Made
11 September 1941
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1
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Copyright expired - public domain
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