Bolt Action - US Army (Winter) M1 57mm Anti-Tank Gun Deck Sleeve Some units were still equipped

Some units were still equipped with the KV in the final year of the war

These were known as the 25-pdr 'Short' and were 500kg lighter than the original

to ensure that they arrived when and crucially where they were needed

and the GIs who would find themselves in desperate combat during the Battle of the Bulge in the forests of the Ardennes would discover that the weather was almost as much of a foe as the enemy troops

Two crew - driver and flamethrower operator

Bolt Action - US Army (Winter) M1 57mm Anti-Tank Gun Deck Sleeve Some units were still equippedThe 57mm M1 anti tank gun was a close copy of the British QF 6pdr which was itself also used by some American units. The M1 originally fired an armoured piercing shell weighing 2. 272kg but this soon proved to be insufficient to penetrate the armour of the new Panther and Tiger tanks. In 1944 an APDS (armoured piercing dispensing sabot) shell was developed making this the first gun to have a discarding sabot shot as its service round. HE shells were