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CENTURION Question?
Ok Canadian Centurion experts...did we ever employ the Centurion with L9 165mm demo gun here in Canada?
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Thanks Terry, I have Clive's book in the archives, will dig it up to verify. It was a longshot
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Ah Hah! The Centurion AVRE, the star of Operation Motorman when the British Army deployed tracked vehicles on the streets of Northern Ireland against their own populace, a dubious part of British history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Motorman
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Ahh yes...had forgotten about Motorman...evidently also the last Cent in active service...nicknamed "the antiques roadshow" during the gulf war
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