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BOFORS GUN 1 The Clacton Shoot

Three Bofors Guns had been deployed on the shingle beach some thirty yards back from the high water mark...

BOFORS GUN 2 The Playground

Fortyfive seconds later the playground echoed to the thud of leather on steel as four steel pegs secured...

BOFORS GUN 3 The Observer

Several weeks later on another gun site this time on the outskirts of London armourers and technicians...

BOFORS GUN 4 A Close Encounter

A pail of hot chocolate was bubbling away on the coal stove just inside the Picket Hut and I decided to...

BOFORS GUN 5 First Blood

A figure in the blue serge of the Observer Corps came over pumped our hands and slapped a few backs and I...

BOFORS GUN 6 The Island

Between the breakwater and a small island some mile or so off shore a huge deep water lagoon offers safe...

BOFORS GUN 7 Epilogue

One of a series of accounts of incidents, in chronological order, whilst commanding a Bofors Gun detachment...

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