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From: drl@kodak.com (Dan Lance)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Calibers
Keywords: calibers
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Date: 7 Jun 89 03:36:41 GMT
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From: drl@kodak.com (Dan Lance)
In article <7129@cbnews.ATT.COM> military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) writes:
>The only ones that come to mind in the WWII era are:
>
>2-pounder (40mm) tank/antitank gun
>6-pounder (57mm.  Note that the US used the exact same gun, and called
>	it 57mm, not 6-pdr)  Also tank/antitank
[...]

Add 1-pdr (??, but small) Pre-WWII Royal Navy AA guns used this caliber.
and 3-pdr (47mm) A few pre-WWII tanks (such as the Medium Mk II)
		used this gun.  As far as I know all of these tanks were
		obsolete in 1939, but some still were around and may
		have been used by the Home Guard.

--drl
Daniel R. Lance / Eastman Kodak Company, Rocheser NY  / drl@kodak.com
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