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A Field Artillery Tractor or FAT is a specific sub-type of Artillery tractor used for towing a piece of Field Artillery ordnance and sometimes (notably the 25 pounder) also its limber. Field artillery includes field guns and howitzers but excludes anti-tank guns, although FATs could also be used to tow the latter. As such FATs were generally, although not exclusively, soft-skinned vehicles.

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  1. "Do you know your army? (3) Field Artillery Tractor". The Leader-Post. The Leader-Post. 6 June 1942. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  2. Baldwin, Frank (20 July 2022). D-Day Gunners: Firepower on the British Beaches and Landing Grounds. Pen and Sword Military. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4738-7372-8. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
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