The Simple British Spigot Rig That Turned Scrap Construction Truck Into Heavy PanzerPiercing Mortars

Before Dunkirk, Britain had 850 anti-tank guns. After Dunkirk, it had 167. A retired Indian Army officer — twice rejected by the War Office — had already built the answer in his private workshop. It was a steel rod on a base. It became 22,000 weapons. Then it became the most lethal submarine killer of the entire Atlantic war. The simplest mechanism in British military history quietly changed the outcome of the most complex conflict in human history. #WW2History, #BritishMilitary, #HomeGuard, #BlitzBritain, #SecondWorldWar, #MilitaryHistory, #ww2weapons