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Old 01-11-2009, 12:16 PM
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Like all the other auto manufacturers, Pontiac had contracts to built equipment for the war effort in 1942-1945. Among other things they built the 20mm Oerlikin antiaircraft cannon, the 40mm Bofors field gun (the one in the picture above) and axles for M-5 tanks.