SELF=PROPELLED GUN
NEW AND FORMIDABLE WEAPON. PRODUCTION IN UNITED STATES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY. December 30. Details of a new self-propelled gun, described •as the most quickly manoeuverable weapon of its type in the world, have been given in Washington. The vehicles are built by the Cadillac Motor Company. A 77 millimetre howitzer is mounted on an M. 5 light tank chassis. These two, said to form a combat team capable of delivering the fastest double blow in mechanised warfare, have been used in the Mediterranean theatre.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 3
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92SELF=PROPELLED GUN Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 3
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