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This specimen Aberdeen Proving Ground today, and the picture brings out the considerable height of the whole equipment above the ground; (below) The Junkers 87 fitted with two semi-automatic 37mm AA guns for anti-tank duties. On the gun nearest to the camera can be seen the box magazine sticking out to the side. (Above) The British infantry anti-tank weapon of World PIAT. A short-range spigot mortar of unusual design, it War II, the stayed in service until about 1949; (below) A US Ml 57mm anti-tank gun firing on a Japanese position on the island of Luzon, Philippines, in 1945.
It cannot have been a success since it was never adopted. size was 37mm and in 1933 there were eight of these be found: from Armstrong in Britain, Bofors in Sweden, Maklen and Rosenberg in Russia, the Puteaux in France, the M2E1 in the USA ( a version of the Puteaux ) the 1922 in Japan, and the Skoda in Czechoslovakia. All weighed between 200 and 7001b, all fired a shell weighing more than lib 8oz and less than 2lb, and all except one claimed an armour penetration of just over an inch at 1,000yd.
A hit anywhere in this area was enough to cause incineration. Probably the best-known occasion of field guns defeating a tank assault was the attack on Flesquieres during the First Battle of Cambrai on 20 November 1917. The tanks of E Battalion were separated from strain on the artillery and, available for conventional more fire seriously, the tasks their following infantry and, as they came over a small ridge out- heavy and accurate fire from several batteries of guns which had been specially set aside for anti-tank work.
