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The AEC Mk I Gun Carrier, known as Deacon, was a British armoured fighting vehicle of the Second World War. It was an attempt to make the QF 6 pounder anti-tank gun into a self-propelled artillery piece. It was employed only during the North African Campaign from 1942 to 1943.
Because the M39s carriers had .50 caliber machine guns, unlike the unit's M41 self-propelled howitzers, they led the retreating column. During the retreat, it was ambushed by Chinese forces; in the battle, the unit lost seven killed in action, two M39 armored utility vehicles, and had two M41s damaged and 31 wounded.
The commander sat on a folding seat at the right rear. The gunner, on the left side of the gun, normally stood to operate it, but he was also provided with a folding seat. The loader normally stood in the area behind the gun. A third folding seat was provided in the turret for the assistant driver in case he needed to assist the loader for any ...
The AEC Mk I Gun Carrier "Deacon" introduced in 1942 in the Desert War was a more sophisticated successor to the portée. The 6-pounder gun was mounted within a three-sided and roofed armoured shield on a turntable on the back of an armoured AEC Matador chassis. [ 11 ]
10.5 cm LeFH 16 is the name of the gun mounted. auf Geschützwagen translates to 'on gun car'. Mk.VI refers to the Mk VI that is the chassis, and the letter 'e' for englisch that the vehicle was originally British manufacture. Some early images of the vehicles show the letters Gp followed by a number on the left side of the armor plate of the ...
The Geschützwagen Tiger (G.W. Tiger) was a German self-propelled gun carrier of World War II that never saw service.. It would have been able to carry either the 17cm Kanone K72 (Sf) or the short barrelled 21cm Mörser 18/1 which had the same mounting; with the former it would be known as Grille 17, the latter Grille 21.
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The Pantserwagen M39 or DAF Pantrado 3 was a Dutch 6×4 armoured car produced in the late 1930s for the Royal Dutch Army.. From 1935 the DAF automobile company designed several armoured fighting vehicles based on its innovative Trado truck suspension system.