Artillery in Canada: 40-mm Bofors Light Anti-aircraft Gun
40-mm Bofors Light Anti-aircraft Gun
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3209022)
Four 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gunners in Normandy, credited with the downing of a German Junkers Ju 88 twin engine bomber, 17 June 1944.
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(IWM Photo, NA 11256)
Gunner Howard Potter has a shave near his 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun, while other members of the crew scan the skies over Ortona, January 1944.
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(Library & Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3223277)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors AA Gun, manned by Gunners of the RCA, Brighton, England, March 1943.
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(Library & Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3583068)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors AA Gun, being prepared for loading on a Douglas C-47 Dakota, RCAF (Serial No. 653), 27 Oct 1943.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3208286)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors AA Gunners with 4 LAA Regiment watching a burning German ammunition dump, Zuthphen, Netherlands, 7 Apr 1945.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo,MIKAN No. 3225643)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors AA gun mounted on a light truck, Caen, France, 18 Jul 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3583069)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors loaded on an aircraft, 27 Oct 1943.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4233812)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors AA Gunners in Normandy.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4233963)
QF 40-mm Bofors AA Gun manned by 1st Canadian Division gunners.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3240422)
British Gunners manning a Bofors anti-aircraft gun, Russi, Italy, 18 February 1945.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photos, MIKAN No. 3224686)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft Guns with searchlights mounted on a Canadian National Railways Armoured Train, 12 July 1942.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photos, MIKAN No. 3224683)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft Guns with searchlights mounted on a Canadian National Railways Armoured Train, 12 July 1942.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photos, MIKAN No. 3224687)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft Guns with searchlights mounted on a Canadian National Railways Armoured Train, 12 July 1942.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4234051)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors AA Gun, Picton, Ontario.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4234050)
40-mm Bofors LAA Gun, 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RCA, Picton, Ontario.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3260956)
Gunner V.C. Northey, loading 40-mm Bofors AAA rounds, 5th Battery, 2nd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RCA, Campobasso, Italy, 29 October 1943.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3577106)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors Twin AA gun crew, HMCS Algonquin.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4950798)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors Twin AA gun crew, HMCS Algonquin, 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3230534)
Ordnance QF 40-mm Bofors AA Gun Mk XI in Twin Mounting practice firing, HMCS Nabob, Jan 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3612507)
Ordnance QF 40mm Bofors AA Gun, HMCS Prince Henry.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3196183)
Quad AA Gun assembly, Dominion Engineering Works, 1942.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4821420)
40-mm Bofors LAA Gun, RCN.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3598667)
Hands closed up for 40-mm Bofors LAA Gun for Action Stations on board HMCS Iroquois.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3607611)
40-mm Bofors LAA Gun with crew.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3571186)
DEMS (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships) gunners manning a Bofors 40mm. anti-aircraft gun aboard an unidentified merchant ship at sea, 5 May 1941.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3571187)
DEMS (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships) gunners manning a Bofors 40mm. anti-aircraft gun aboard an unidentified merchant ship at sea, 5 May 1941.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3571188)
DEMS (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships) gunners passing ammunition for a Bofors 40mm. anti-aircraft gun aboard an unidentified merchant ship at sea, 5 May 1941.