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Roger V. Lucy, Service Publications (2006)
Softcover
128 pages
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Secret Weapons of the Canadian Army
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During the Second World War the Canadian Army experimented with a variety of home grown vehicles and weapons systems as well as improvements or modifications to existing British and US designs. The Sexton self-propelled 25-pdr gun may be one of the best known but there existed many others which never progressed beyond single examples. Based in great part on the Army Technical Development Board reports as well as the Army Engineering Design Branch work, this book will show many previously unknown experimental variants.
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| Weight | 0.7 kg |
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| Dimensions | 25.4 × 17.3 × 1 cm |
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