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Queen's Own Riffles of Canada on Oerlikon gun, Juno Beach. This is same type of gun on ships for ant-aircraft. D-Day+2, June 8, 1944.

The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon is a series of auto cannons, based on an original German Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon design that appeared very early in World War I. It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models employed by both Allied and Axis forces during World War II.