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Please Note: IWM London will be temporarily closed from 2 January - 1 July 2013 as part of a major redevelopment project. IWM London will partially reopen in July 2013 and in June 2014 the museum will fully reopen. During this time, IWM's other London branches, HMS BELFAST and Churchill War Rooms, will be open as usual, and a number of the large objects featured below will be on display at IWM Duxford.

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*The First World War*
	British 18pr Field Gun
	This British field gun was introduced in 1904 and was primarily used during World War 1. It could fire an 8.4kg shell up to 5965 metres and had a cali...
	British 60lbr Gun Mk 1
	Medium artillery piece brought into service in 1904 and used extensively during World War 1 both on the Western front and in the Middle East. It's use...
	British 9.2inch Mk 1 heavy Howitzer
	A heavy seige howitzer from the First World War. This piece came into service in 1914 and it's incredible 290lb (131.5kg) shells would pound indirect ...
	British First World War Mk 5 Tank
	This particular example was produced in 1918 and belonged to B Company, 4th Battalion Royal Tank Corps. It was armed with a 6lb'er gun on either side ...
	French 75mm gun and limber
	This important field gun was introduced in 1897 and was the standard French fieldpiece into the 1930's. It played an important role in the German defe...
	Sopwith Camel 2F1 World War 1 fighter
	The Sopwith Camel (so called because of the hump in the forward fuselage between the pilot and the propeller) arrived late in the First World War, ent...
*The Second World War*
	Bofors 40mm light Anti-Aircraft Gun
	The 40mm L/60 automatic anti-aircraft gun was designed in Sweden by Bofors in 1928. It became so successful it was simply known as a 'Bofors gun' and ...
	British 25 pounder field gun
	The 25lbr Mk II QF gun was the standard British divisional field gun from the 1940's up to the late 1960's. It could be used in both the close support...
	British 5.5 inch Mk III Medium Gun
	A medium cailbre artillery piece brought into service in 1941 (this one dates from 1942) was still being used in the 1970's. It could fire a 45.4 kg s...
	British Churchill Mk VII Tank
	The Churchill was designed before the war and early, unreliable versions were rushed into service, proving disastrous. Between 1942 and 46 however the...
	German 88mm Anti-Aircraft Gun and Argentine 20mm AA gun
	The premier, multi-purpose gun of the second world war, the German 88 was respected and feared wherever it was encountered. A high muzzle velocity, go...
	German Jagdpanther Self-propelled Gun
	This tank destroyer from 1943 was based on a Pzkpfw 5 Panther chassis and mounted a powerful 88mm anti-tank gun, the equal of almost all allied armour...
	German Pak 38 Anti-Tank gun
	Used on all fronts throughout the second world war the 5cm pak38 was the mainstay of the German infantry's anti-tank artillery. Designed in 1940 it fi...
	M3A3 Grant Tank 'Monty'
	This British version of an American tank was used in the North African desert campaigns of 1941 and fought at El Alamein. It was originally armed with...
	M4A4 Sherman V Tank
	Between 1942 and 1946, 40,000 of these important tanks were built, pouring much-needed Allied armour into the push against the previously indestructab...
	Russian T34/85 Tank
	Widely thought the be the best tank of the war, the T34 was designed in 1939 but first appeared in battle in June 1941. By the end of the war 40,000 h...