Triple Polstens on a towed mount
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Hello All.
Can anyone help with more info on this towed mount for the triple Polsten AA gun. Attachment 132702 Attachment 132703 |
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Here's a triple Polsten on a Crusader chassis - read more here https://flic.kr/p/29Fj8ap
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'E' Troop, 321st Battery, 93rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery
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And a famous, original colour photo taken in the JUNO Area, NAN WHITE Beach at Bernières-sur-Mer - read more here: https://flic.kr/p/28LCSjA
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Triple 20mm anti-aircraft mounting on the banks of the Rhine, 25 March 1945.
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Looks like this one was truck-mounted:
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I think this is another truck mounted one: "A British triple 20mm anti-aircraft gun position guards the Bailey Bridge at Arnhem, 18 April 1945."
Attachment 132799 Source: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205207121 Your second photo of one on a towed mount: "Mobile triple 20mm Oerlikon gun during an anti-aircraft artillery demonstration at Sheerness, 2 July 1943." Attachment 132798 Source: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205199053 And another tank chassis mounted one: "Crusader AA tank mounting a triple Oerlikon gun in a hull-down position, 19 July 1944." Note that these guns are often erroneously called Oerlikons - why would that be? Attachment 132800 Source: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205206079 |
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One more on a CMP truck mount, The Netherlands 1944 (I think this is the bridge at Nijmegen):
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