A licence-built Austrian Bohler design, the 47/32 was light enough to be manhandled by its crew across broken desert terrain and doubled as the main gun of Italy's M13/40 and M14/41 tanks, but its small shell struggled against the frontal armour of later Allied tanks by 1942.
Italian 47 mm anti-tank gun (Cannone da 47/32) displayed on the grounds of CFB Borden (Base Borden Military Museum). The canon stamp states: CANNONE DA 47/32 MOD. 39 Photo taken on August 12, 2006. Source: Photo by me, UBalcer~commonswiki · CC BY 2.5 · sourceItalian 47 mm anti-tank gun (Cannone da 47/32) displayed on the grounds of CFB Borden (Base Borden Military Museum). The canon stamp states: CANNONE DA 47/32 MOD. 39 Photo taken on August 12, 2006. Source: Photo by me, UBalcer~commonswiki · CC BY 2.5 · sourceItalian 47 mm anti-tank gun (Cannone da 47/32) displayed on the grounds of CFB Borden (Base Borden Military Museum). The canon stamp states: CANNONE DA 47/32 MOD. 39 Photo taken on August 12, 2006. Source: Photo by me, UBalcer~commonswiki · CC BY 2.5 · source
