This is one of the 20mm Cannon Shells fired by Mosquito II DD612, flown by my father (Group Captain R G Slade) on the night of 22-8-1942. My father and his navigator shot down a Dornier 217 E-4 U5 ...
The P20 is officially called the Multirole Lightweight Vehicle Armament by KNDS France and is fitted with an unstabilised KNDS France pintle mounted 20M621 gas operated cannon. It fires standard NATO ...
Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library continues Staff Sgt. Robert "Bob" Hickman's story of survival in World War II.