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	Armoured personnel carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armoured personnel carriers (APCs) are armoured fighting vehicles developed to transport infantry on the battlefield.
		Most armoured personnel carriers use a diesel engine comparable to that used in a large truck or in a typical city bus (APCs are often known to troops as 'Battle Taxis' or 'Battle Buses').
		Armour on APCs are usually simple steel or aluminium armour, sufficient for protection against small arms fire and most shell fragments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armoured_personnel_carrier (680 words)

	Armoured fighting vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, armoured personnel carriers were generally replaced by infantry fighting vehicles in a very similar role, but the latter has some capabilities lacking in the former.
		It has the heaviest armour of any vehicle on the battlefield, and carries a powerful weapon that may be able to engage a wide variety of ground targets.
		The first attempt to carry troops in an armoured tracked vehicle was made by the British in the First World War, a lengthened Mark V that could house a squad of infantry while still armed as a tank.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armored_fighting_vehicle (1060 words)

	The Canadian Kangaroos
		Most Kangaroos were initially equipped with at least one Browning.50 on an improvised mount on the turret ring, but these mounts were found awkward and unreliable due to the incredible vibration of firing, and were subsequently replaced with one or two additional Browning.30s scrounged from wrecked vehicles or wherever they could be found.
		A troop of eight Kangaroos would thus have a minimum of sixteen machine guns to cover their advance, not including the Brens of their infantry lift and the support from whatever other armour might be along for the ride.
		The Canadian Armoured Corps, which provided most of the personnel for the Kangaroos as well as the basis for their administration and employment, was itself a relatively new service, having only been constituted just a few short years before.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-armour/allied/kangaroos.htm (1608 words)

	Tank : UK_tanks_2 - World War Two
		Armour: 7 mm (0.28 in) to 49 mm (1.93 in)
		Armour 20 mm (0.79 in) to 76 mm (2.99 in)
		Armour: 8 mm (0.32 in) to 76 mm (2.99 in)
	www.valourandhorror.com /DB/SPEC/tank/UK_tank_2.php (712 words)

	Carrier Platoon - www.canadiansoldiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Universal Carrier was a small, armoured vehicle based on Horstmann suspension, which allowed the tracks on each side to be slowed or speeded; on gradual turns the centre bogie wheels could also be forced away from the hull so as to disalign the tracks.
		The Carrier was very manoeuvrable, though due to its light armour, which made it proof against small arms fire, it provided no protection from close-range MG fire, and its lack of a roof provided less than complete protection against mortar or shellfire.
		By 1944, the Carrier Platoon of an infantry battalion numbered thirteen carriers and was the Number Four Platoon of the battalion.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Carrier_Platoon (583 words)

	Alvis Vehicles FV432 Armoured Personnel Carrier (UK
		After the war, a number of tracked armoured personnel carrier prototypes were developed, but it wasn't until the late 1950s that a suitable design was found.
		Subsequent to this, GKN was awarded the contract for design and development to of the FV432 family of armoured personnel carriers with the initial contract covering four prototypes and thirteen vehicles for troop trials.
		Alvis Vehicles FV432 Armoured Personnel Carrier in Jane's Armour and Artillery 2001 - 2002 at http://is.rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk/janes/janes/jaa2001/jaa_0242.htm.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/weapons_alvis_fv432.html (913 words)

	Armoured Personnel Carrier - www.canadiansoldiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Each tank accompanying the 12th Brigade, for example, carried an infantry or machine-gun officer, an infantry scout, a runner, a Vickers Gun with crew of five, and two Lewis guns with crews of three each; there were thus fourteen people packed into the tank or riding on top.
		The carrier was not well suited to the role of carrying motorized infantry directly into battle, and Motor battalions in the Commonwealth (ie motorized infantry units attached directly to armoured divisions) used a mixture of US-designed halftracks and Universal Carriers for transport.
		The Grizzly was acquired along with other AVGPs (Armoured Vehicle, General Purpose) in the 1970s as a training vehicle to equip the Militia, though after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1991, the vehicles were moved back to the Regular Force to equip overseas missions.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Infantry_Fighting_Vehicle (1077 words)

	Legion Magazine : Clearing Moyland Wood
		Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment, rode right onto their objective at Louisendorf, Germany, capturing 240 prisoners.
		More than 500 guns, field, medium and heavy were employed and the lead companies were mounted in Kangaroo armoured personnel carriers that were to advance at "armoured pace" 50 yards a minute.
		Some of the tanks and Kangaroos bogged down and at least six tanks were knocked out by anti-tank guns firing from the Calcar ridge.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/02-11.asp (2200 words)

	Nase noviny - The M3/M5 (Honey/Stuart) Light Tank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Conditions were for the most part similar for Germans and British alike, however, the lay-out of the fighting compartment, the roles of each member of the crew, as well as tactics used during tank battles proved to have decisive influence on the success of each engagement.
		A gradual shift from riveted armour to welded turrets and later hulls could be seen throughout the development of the M3 and the M5.
		The M5 Light Tanks were used primarily by the Armoured Reconnaissance Squadron (later converted into the 3rd Armoured Regiment) and reconnaissance elements of the two armoured regiments.
	www.geocities.com /nasenoviny/StuartEN.html (755 words)

	Armoured personnel carrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The usual armament for an APC is a 12.7 (.50) or 14.5 mm heavy machine gun.
		Actual combat experience has however shown that infantry cannot fight effectively from their vehicle and a mounted attack is practically suicidal.
		The reason for doing this may be cost, or the need for more interior space on some vehicles, as automatic cannon and their ammunition supply may reduce the number of infantry that can be carried.
	www.abitabouteverything.com /files/a/ar/armoured_personnel_carrier.html (929 words)

	Kangaroo Impromptu
		The new feature about this attack was that the infantry would be carried to the front lines in armoured personnel carriers, along with the tanks, instead of following on foot behind the initial attack.
		The first 76 carriers were made by removing the 105 mm guns from the American-made self-propelled guns called "Priests".
		This time, since we fight not against flesh and blood, our armour is provided by God.(Eph 6:13) as is the light (John 8:12).
	graceland.gentle.org /whatcha/kanga.html (1072 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - Canadian-built Tanks
		The Valentine was used in quantity by British armoured formations early in the war, but its low speed, light armour, and small main gun (a 2-pounder) rendered it obsolescent by late 1942.
		Canadian armoured formations overseas were equipped with Rams, but in mid-1943 the more-advanced M4 Sherman was selected as the Western Allies' main battle tank.
		Although Canadian armoured units were re-equipped with Shermans by mid-1944, the Ram continued to be used for training, and provided the basis for a number of other Armoured Fighting Vehicles.
	www.junobeach.org /e/4/can-tac-arm-can-e.htm (688 words)

	'Threads'
		Later on, I guess somewhere in September 49th RTR converted to become 49th Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment, and stayed in that role until end of hostilities.
		The task was carried out mainly as a field workshop commitment to save time transporting the tanks to be used for this purpose from the army area to and from base workshops in Southern Italy.
		Suitable store protection and accommodation for the Infantry to be carried was added, with facilities for mounting and dismounting, and the vehicles when converted carried twenty in addition to a crew of two.
	www.ipmscanada.com /threads/th21-Kangaroo-01.html (996 words)

	ADF FD COM Land Vehicles
		The top part of the hatch has, beneath an armoured cover, an observation window with a firing port to enable the centre rear passenger to comfortably fire a personal weapon to the vehicle’s rear.
		When the armoured cover for this window is open there is a 15% chance that a hit on the vehicle’s rear will strike the window which only has AV: 2.
		This armour is an active array that is effective against all sorts of anti-armour weapons including plasma and kinetic energy.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~dheb/2300/Oceania/ADF2/adffdlandveh.htm (2537 words)

	The 25-pdr Field Gun 1939 - 1972: Part Two
		C and D troops of the battery had been firing over open sights and three guns had been destroyed, but the other two continued to fire as they withdrew even though firing was very detrimental to the guns as the soft ground caused the platforms to bend and buckle with the shock of firing.
		The Bishop (or the 25-pounder Mk I on Carrier, Valantine, 25-pdr, Mk I to give its proper military title) was designed to fulfil a requirement for the 25-pdr gun to be able to keep pace with the war of manoeuvre in the Western Desert.
		It had a crew of four, could be equipped with a Bren gun for AA defence, had an armour thickness of 60mm maximum and 8mm minimum and carried 32 rounds of ammunition.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/weapons_25pdr2.html (2852 words)

	Legion Magazine: Opening Up The Channel Ports
		This left the Canadians with one infantry and one armoured division to capture Boulogne, Calais and clear the south bank of the Scheldt Estuary.
		The spectators had long since departed and there was nothing to see in the sand dunes along the coast or the flooded fields south of the city.
		The slopes were too steep for Kangaroos or tanks so the Chauds leaned into the barrage and climbed the hill.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/00-05.asp (2281 words)

	The Canadian Priest Kangaroo
		An AWD (Army Workshops Detachment), code named 'Kangaroo', was set up in two fields near Bayeux with the camp sited in the protection of a neighbouring orchard, about twenty miles from the start line.
		The 72 Priest Kangaroos were baptised in battle on the night of 7 August 1944 and were used in action throughout the rest of the month.
		When on 28 August a squadron of carriers was organised, only 55 out of the planned 100 (four troops of 25 each) Priest Kangaroos were available.
	web.inter.nl.net /users/spoelstra/g104/1cacr/m7.html (837 words)

	1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment
		The first Kangaroos, known as Unfrocked Priests or Priest Kangaroos, were improvised by taking the gun out of U.S. Priest M7 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriages and thus providing room for 20 infantry plus a crew of one.
		As the core of this new Regiment - the personnel and the vehicles of the Kangaroo Squadron - were at Tilburg, this town was selected as the point for concentration.
		In December 1944, the decision was made to include the Regiment, together with the British 49th Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment, within the ranks of the British 79th Armoured Division.
	www.mapleleafup.org /histories/1cacr (1462 words)

	49th APCR News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We are the British equivalent of the 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment, and are pleased to be a part of their excellent site on the subject of the Kangaroos, that unique organization of armoured troop-carrying tanks which revolutionized modern warfare.
		As with the Canadian Kangaroos, we of the 49th were disbanded in situ shortly after the war, and went our own ways to pick up our lives as best we could.
		Together with our Canadian friends and fellow Kangaroos, our greatest pride is that we saved countless lives in the performance of our duty, and were able to make a significant contribution to shortening a war which had already gone on for far too long, at far too heavy a cost.
	www.class-five.com /~apcr/news.html (491 words)

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		Then the were equiped with a CDL turret that produced a light of 13 million candle power.
		The famous Ram Kangaroo, an armoured personnel carrier made by removing the turret from a Canadian Ram Tank.
		The basis from which the Kangaroo had developed.
	home.tiscali.nl /hgmkuip/blerick/tanksbovington.html (98 words)

	Freeper Foxhole Treadhead Tuesday-Rams Sheep Grizzlies Skinks Kangaroos & Sextons - Apr. 5th, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This Kangaroo appears to have its rear deck piled high with tarps and other bric-a-brac, which would be the property of its crew of two or three.
		With its open top, the Kangaroo was also susceptible to the vagaries of inclement weather, although each vehicle was equipped with a tarp which was generally used when off the line.
		The structural reinforcement welded to the armour at the rear is the original bracketry for the deep-fording attachments foreseen as necessary for the Normandy landings.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1377524/posts (8330 words)

	Worthington Outdoor Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After the war most of the armoured regiments were disbanded and some have since been reactivated.
		The first Canadian armoured vehicles were the Russell-Knight Car and the Russell Armoured Lorry built in Toronto in 1915.
		The latter vehicle was unusual in that it possessed what today would be called an integrated fighting compartment, A turret basket rotated with the turret, but not on a ring and ball race as is customary; the turret struts were brought down to the floor instead of the sides of top of the hull.
	www.eagle.ca /~harry/vehicles/worth (661 words)

	MLU FORUM - Kangaroo cap badge on eBay
		A genuine cap badge to the ‘Kangaroos’, the 1st Canadian Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment (CB.46, Mazeas C.57).
		After a number of successful trials of armoured personnel carriers made from converted tanks in the aftermath of D’Day a Squadron of ‘Kangaroos’ was formed on August 28th 1944 (die 1 badges).
		This is a nice Badge from The first Canadian Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment Badge, badge is in exxelent condition both lugs are in place.
	www.mapleleafup.org /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3854 (2365 words)

	Armoured personnel carrier - TheBestLinks.com - Ambush, Armoured fighting vehicle, Bus, Diesel engine, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Armoured personnel carrier - TheBestLinks.com - Ambush, Armoured fighting vehicle, Bus, Diesel engine,...
		Armoured personnel carrier, Ambush, Armoured fighting vehicle, Bus, Diesel...
		The Strykers are very versatile and they come with serveral configurations: APCs, CEV, 105mm cannon, mortar, anti-tank gun, recon, communication etc.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Armoured_personnel_carrier.html (393 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - A Winters Tale
		The attack was to be a perfect set-piece assault with armour from the 79th Armoured Division in support of the 15th Scottish Division.
		The town was surrounded by a wide deep anti-tank ditch with extensive mine fields either side of the ditch and our task was to cross the ditch and drop the infantry on their objectives in the town.
		I was a driver of a Kangaroo, which was a Canadian Ram tank with it's turret removed so that infantry could be carried to the objective with some protection.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/51/a2147951.shtml (913 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Hobart's Funnies - January 9th, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of the things Dieppe had made clear was that a landing craft big enough to carry nine tanks was also a dangerously inviting target for enemy gunners, offering them the opportunity to eliminate a large chunk of the invading force's armour with a single well-placed shell.
		Known as the *Kangaroo* [since it carried its babies in a steel pouch] there are a couple of the old vehicles, almost all used up as targets on tank gunnery ranges after the war, preserved in museums and memorials.
		Kangaroos also carried hundreds of wounded and prisoners away from the line in the course of normal ops.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1054522/posts (6533 words)

	InfoHub - Reply to Topic
		I tell Ruth about the vast numbers of kangaroos we will see on the Barrier Highway as we head for Wilcannia, but when we get there we see nothing like the numbers that were there last year.
		Unlike my climbing trips when everything has to be carried on the back, this trip centres around the vehicle, which is going to be my lifeline if I got into any kind of trouble.
		As it darkens, the kangaroos start to appear, first ones and twos, then large groups of adults and juveniles, Eastern Greys and Reds, side by side, here at the point where their habitats coincide.
	www.infohub.com /forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=7412 (20760 words)

	People dumber than the administration :) \| The Agonist
		According to the brief criminal complaint filed Friday, William Hammersley called 911 on Thursday afternoon and indicated he had used a 20-gauge shotgun to shoot his mother and nephew and a family dog.
		Two Russian soldiers are in trouble after driving an armoured personnel carrier 25 miles to buy vodka.
		The soldiers took the armoured vehicle from their military base, near Yekaterinburg in Siberia, and drove it to the nearest town.
	www.agonist.org /story/2005/5/30/10549/5615 (960 words)

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