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This country is at war with Germany.

We shall go on to the end.

I remember the sheets of flame which came up and almost blinded us from our guns.

Hello and we to another episode of the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace.

From late 1944 an ungainly piece of equipment was introduced into servicing the British and Canadian armies, referred to at the time as the Valentine 17 pound or

SP and later the Archer, it was a tracked vehicle with an open compartment at the front and a large gun facing to the rear.

So joining me to tell the story of the development of the Archer is loyal patron of the show and

author of self-repelled 17-pounder Archer Christopher Canfield.

Chris, thanks for joining me so before we get to the Archer I was thinking about the development of

self-propelled guns and self-propelled anti-tank guns.

Had Britain and the Commonwealth experimented with self-propelled guns in that interwar period?

I don't know about any self-propelled anti-tank guns but we do have in the

you know in the 1920s where there's a lot of experimentation going on with mobile

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