Ford 3 ton AA, Airborne usage

[Colin Macgregor Stevens]

An airborne lightweight Bofors 40 mm gun is in the RCA Museum in Shilo, Manitoba. It is called a Bantam Bofors as I recall.

I am not aware of 1 or 6 AB Divs using 40mm guns, especially mounted on trucks.

The Bantam Bofors was probably a late-war or post-war development.

I know the British airborne used some 20mm AA guns. I have an original manual for one, plus some shell casings from the one that went through the Battle of Arnhem and was disabled at the end by the British. The other gun had been disabled early on in the fighting by enemy fire.

The RCA Museum also has a US 75 mm Pack Howitzer as used by the British and Canadian airborne during and after WWII.

An airborne used 25 Pounder is in the Bessborough Armoury in Vancouver with 15 Field Regt, RCA. Last time I saw it, it was covered with small parachute symbols for the times it was dropped. I believe it is a standard model 25 Pdr.