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| Vehicle-mounted Italian Cannone da 90/53 anti-aircraft gun, circa 1940s | Vehicle-mounted Italian Cannone da 90/53 anti-aircraft gun, circa 1940s |
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| New Zealand Brigadier Howard Kippenberger and Captain Allan McPhail inspecting a destroyed Cannone da 90/53 anti-aircraft gun formerly of the Italian Ariete Division, near El Alamein, Egypt, 4 Jul 1942 or shortly after | 9 cm Flak 309/1(i) anti-aircraft gun and its German crew on the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia, Italy, Jul-Aug 1944 |
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