BRITAIN’S NEW GUN
SUCCESS IN DESERT CAMPAIGN
LONDON, Jan. 25.
Details have been issued of Britain’s newest self-propelled gun, the 105millimetre ’howitzer, nicknamed “The Priest,” which, as the reply to the German 88-millimetre anti-tank gun, put the Allies ahead in the Eighth Army’s campaign. The gun is mounted on a General Grant chassis, which also carries an anti-aircraft gun. It is recalled that the Prime Minister, Mr Churchill, last November disclosed that large numbers of highvclodity, self-propelled guns were sent to Egypt from the United States.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25134, 27 January 1943, Page 3
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