Canadian Self-Propelled Guns “Sexton” (Ordnance QF 25-Pounder Short “SEXTON”) in the morning fog on the battlefield in the area of the French city of Ifs. The Western Front, World War II in Europe.
Ordnance QF 25-Pounder Short (Royal Ordnance Quick Firing 25-Pounder)-an 87.6-mm English field guinch gun, which was adopted before the Second World War and was the main artillery system in the British army until the early 1960s.
In small quantities of QF 25-Pounder Short, this type of guns served in the United Kingdom as training guns until 1967, while many countries of the British Commonwealth continued to use them further.
Ordnance QF 25-Pounder Short Gun-Haubitze is among the best tools of World War II thanks to the universalism of application. Despite its small caliber compared to other tools of that era, the 25-pound was removed from weapons only because of the weapons standardization policy pursued in NATO. Moreover, the British gunners were by no means in enthusiastic mood about the removal from weapons by the time and battles of the QF 25-Pounder Short guns. The last time the 25-pound gun was used in battle by British troops in Oman in 1972.
Place of shooting: Ifs, France
Shooting time: 1944