Full Name | Ordnance Quick-Firing (QF) 6-pounder 7 cwt 57 mm gun |
Class | Equipment |
Movement | 1* |
Armor Value | 2 |
Vs Infantry (RNG / FPR) | 5/4 |
Vs Vehicle (RNG / FPR) | 7/9 |
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Period | Mid 1942-1945 |
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The British Ordnance Quick-Firing (QF) 6-pounder 7 cwt 57 mm (L/50) towed gun served as a primary anti-tank gun of the British Army during World War II, beginning in April 1942. It replaced the 2-pounder as an anti-tank gun, allowing the 25 pounder gun-howitzer to revert to its intended artillery role. A variant of this gun served as the main armament for a number of British armoured fighting vehicles (including up-gunned versions of the Churchill, Valentine, and Crusader tanks, plus the Cromwell). Both armor-piercing and high-explosive, anti-personnel rounds were available for this gun. A crew of 6 operated the gun. In 1942 the U.S. Army also adopted the QF 6-pdr as its standard ant-tank gun in the European and Mediterranean theaters, with the nomenclature 57 mm Gun M1. U.S. industry produced 15,637 units from 1942 through 1945. These stats represent the base ToI unit.