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Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
"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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I presume these were part of the shipments of American equipment rushed out to North Africa to help the British stem the tide.
I have not been able to locate a picture of this combination in British service, but attached goes an early wartime picture of one in US service (those used by the British should be identical).