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Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
The following quote was found in Wheels & Tracks magazine no.53, p.37: "I [R.D.(Dick) Okill] went out to the Middle East for El Alamein and joined the 37th LAA which had come down from Syria and we re-equipped with American Bofors guns and some 6x6 GMCs as towers, with American Ford 3-tonners and one Morris artillery tractor."
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A quick search for "37th LAA" turned up a web page about
The Coleraine Battery. Although unrelated, this web page does show a nice snapshot of a certain Joe McClelland in front of a Ford truck in 1943. Looks like a Canadian MCP Ford FC60L to me.