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25-Pounder Guns, 2/8th Field Regiment

Australian Forces

25-Pounder Guns, 2/8th Field Regiment

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Original caption: "25-pounder guns of the 2/8th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, in action on the coastal sector near El Alamein, Egypt. They are being fired at a range of 9,800 yards on to enemy positions. As a reprisal shoot this troop fired 1,250 rounds in one and a half hours at rapidly changing ranges in reply to German artillery which fired 700 rounds in one hour. A pile of empty shell cases is seen in foreground." Date: 12 July 1942, during the First Battle of El Alamein

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9/1/2003

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