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Good point. the old 40mm Bofors Pompom was widely used as antiaircraft round in WWII.

Not quite. The 40mm Bofors is still in current use. The 2pdr pom-pom was a different, lower muzzle velocity, less effective weapon - still in use but obsolete by world war II (40mm upper - pom-pom lower)

2 Pdr Pom Pom suffered from frequent jamming problems and it became the norm to issue a large mallet with each mounting in order to give the offending breech a "Seamanlike" whack to free the guns mechanism up again.

30 posted on 04/05/2006 8:25:45 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("If you go out there with an innocent heart, you're eaten." - David Attenborough))

Thanks, I did have them confused.

I think that we had short range artillery posted all up and down the coast of california during 1942. Pompoms, 37mm, 3 inch guns (later used as antitank guns) or 90mm (also used as antitank guns).

32 posted on 04/05/2006 8:33:12 PM PDT by Donald Meaker (You don't drive a car looking through the rear view mirror, but you do practice politics that way.)