Item STERN 2/21/14 - Note, 1 Apr 1941, about problems with increased gun velocity

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STERN 2/21/14

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Note, 1 Apr 1941, about problems with increased gun velocity

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  • 1941 Apr 1 (Creation)

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Note by Stern on a statement made in conversation by Maj Gen Vyvyan Vavasour Pope, Director of Armoured Fighting Vehicles, War that shells of the 6 pounder gun had disintegrated when the velocity was raised to 2700 feet per second. 1p

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Originals of photocopied personal correspondence (Section 1/17) are at Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone.

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