Artillery in Canada: 105-mm Priest M-7 SP Gun
105-mm Priest M-7 SP Gun
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3607963)
105-mm Priest M-7 self-propelled gun coming ashore in Italy, c1943.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3607614)
Troop of 105-mm Priest self-propelled howitzers of the Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) in Italy, c1943.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3224758)
Priest M7 105-mm SP Howitzer, Normandy, 14 July 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3209106)
Priest M7 105-mm SP Howitzer, firing on a target, Normandy, 22 June 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3226407)
105-mm Priest M-7 entering Caen, France, 10 July 1944.
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(IWM Photo, NA 2391)
M7 105-mm self-propelled gun crossing the River Senio over two Churchill Ark bridging tanks.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3191596)
HM King George VI inspecting Priest M7 105-mm SP Howitzers, RCA, 25 Apr 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3205227)
Gunners with Priest M7 105-mm SP Howitzer, 34 Battery, 14th Field Regiment, RCA, France, 20 June 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3396109)
105-mm Priest M-7 SP Gun A3, 19th Fd Regt, RCA, France, July 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3396099)
105-mm Priest M-7 SP Gun A3, 34th Bty, 14th Fd Regt, RCA, France, 20 June 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3396110)
105-mm Priest M-7 SP Gun A3, 19th Fd Regt, RCA, France, July 1944.
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(Clive Prothero-Brooks Photos)
M7 Priest 105-mm Self-propelled Howitzer, “Zulu Warrior”, RCA Musuem, CFDB Shilo, Manitoba.
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M7B1 Priest 105-mm SP Gun. Texas Forces Military Museum, Camp Mabry, Texas.
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M7B12Priest 105-mm SP Gun. Texas Forces Military Museum, Camp Mabry, Texas.
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M7 Priest 105-mm SP Gun. 1st Cavalry Museum, Fort Hood, Texas.
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M7 Priest 105-mm SP Gun. 3rd Cavalry Museum, Fort Hood, Texas.
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M7B2 Priest 105-mm SP Gun. 3rd Cavalry Museum, Fort Hood, Texas.