17 pdr 'Pheasant'
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17 pdr 'Pheasant'
by Paul @ Warlord Games » Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:13 am
Anyone know if this ad hoc beast saw action outside of North Africa/Tunisia? More specifically did it make it to North West Europe at all?Not having much with the t'interweb on this...Cheers,Paul
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by Phil » Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:15 am
No, not NWE. Sicily perhaps, but that's about as far as they went. The 17 pdr was really too powerful for the carriage, and they wore out very fast.
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17 pdr 'Pheasant'
by Paul @ Warlord Games » Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:58 am
Thanks Phil - thought that would be the case but wanted to be sure before picking one up.Cheers,Paul
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by Cubster » Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:02 am
Good eating on one of those.
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by grecian1959 » Sun Oct 17, 2010 2:01 pm
Nah Cubster there'd be too much buckshot gauge in the meat it'd be case of chew /spit/ping on the plate etc.......... :-) Although i'd love to see it try to take off n fly
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