
Royal Artillery: The UK’s World War Two Arsenal
The following article on the United Kingdom's Royal Artillery is an excerpt from Barrett Tillman' D-Day Encyclopedia. It is available for order now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Royal Artillery's Seventeen-Pounder The quick-firing (QF) seventeen-pounder was a three-inch (76 mm) howitzer introduced in 1942. It was primarily intended as an antitank gun,…