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  • Here we were on a flat-bottomed troop ship defended by obsolete bofors anti-aircraft guns.

    HMS Sheffield Is Hit. Rogue Gunner 2007

  • Chris's lone Panzer II having gone through the Indian line wandering all over the table, surviving anti-tank fire, artillery, multiple shots by the bofors AA guns, and a tank destroyer ambush, before finally being killed by a GI assault.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Cromwell MkI 2005

  • Chris's lone Panzer II having gone through the Indian line wandering all over the table, surviving anti-tank fire, artillery, multiple shots by the bofors AA guns, and a tank destroyer ambush, before finally being killed by a GI assault.

    Fort Floriet 18/10/05 Nick 2005

  • For the men on the ground, the spectacle was astonishing, with searchlights directed towards the clouds—“Monty moonlight”—being used to improve visibility, and bofors guns firing tracer to mark the axes of advance.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • In the weeks that followed, I had an opportunity to witness an amphibious campaign whose flavour any veteran of June 1944 would immediately have recognized, even to the bren guns, oerlikons and bofors hammering into the sky.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • For the men on the ground, the spectacle was astonishing, with searchlights directed towards the clouds—“Monty moonlight”—being used to improve visibility, and bofors guns firing tracer to mark the axes of advance.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • In the weeks that followed, I had an opportunity to witness an amphibious campaign whose flavour any veteran of June 1944 would immediately have recognized, even to the bren guns, oerlikons and bofors hammering into the sky.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • In the weeks that followed, I had an opportunity to witness an amphibious campaign whose flavour any veteran of June 1944 would immediately have recognized, even to the bren guns, oerlikons and bofors hammering into the sky.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • For the men on the ground, the spectacle was astonishing, with searchlights directed towards the clouds—“Monty moonlight”—being used to improve visibility, and bofors guns firing tracer to mark the axes of advance.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • In the weeks that followed, I had an opportunity to witness an amphibious campaign whose flavour any veteran of June 1944 would immediately have recognized, even to the bren guns, oerlikons and bofors hammering into the sky.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

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