"M. J. Powell" wrote in message
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In message , Nele VII
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The friend of mine, former US Army-I don't know which branch, the one
that
is jumping from Hercules with oxygen bottles and parafoil-back in the
80's
he was in Afghanistan equipping Mujahedins with donkey-mounted howitzers
(yeah, I know what you are thinking. I didn't believe it either until
I've
seen the pictures of such all-terain self-propelled howitzers and had a
good
belly laugh).

Google for 'screw-guns' and 'British Army in India' preWW I

Mike

You dont need to go that far back, pack howitzers were issued
to US and British forces in WW2 and hauled by mules

http://community-2.webtv.net/msn.com...601stFABnPack/

Keith