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Old December 9th, 2008, 07:58 PM
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Default Re: ammo cannisters

In winSPWW2 the Australian ( ANZAC.. whatever ) OOB has air transportable 25 pounder abrn Howitzer for 9/43 and 9/43 only. AFAIK it was only used once and may have been put in there for a scenario. USMC is the only OOB that has crewed mortars in [A] para formations

This from the text files on that Australian formation
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In September of 1943, at the request of the USA, with barely two weeks of training, the Australians deployed two gun detachments of the 2nd/4th Field Regiment to airdrop in support of US paratroops at Nadzeb, New Guinea.*
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This formation represents one of the two detachments.*
The code to drop crews separate from crewed guns and vehicles in 99.9 % of cases only apples to MBT and is mainly there to keep PBEMer's "Honest" when using air droppable vehicles in modern battles.

Don

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