A six-pounder anti-tank gun in action against a German Self-propelled gun, west of Oosterbeek, 20 September 1944

Photograph by Sergeant D M Smith, Army Film and Photographic Unit, World War Two, North West Europe, 1944.

The six-pounder anti-tank gun was modified to fit inside the Horsa and Hamilcar glider and was one of the few artillery weapons available to the lightly armed airborne forces that landed at Arnhem.

From a collection of 75 British official photographs relating to 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem, Operation MARKET GARDEN, September 1944.