Field Artillery Tractor

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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.{{cite news |title=Do you know your army? (3) Field Artillery Tractor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sK1TAAAAIBAJ |access-date=3 November 2024 |work=The Leader-Post |publisher=The Leader-Post |date=6 June 1942 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Baldwin |first1=Frank |title=D-Day Gunners: Firepower on the British Beaches and Landing Grounds |date=20 July 2022 |publisher=Pen and Sword Military |isbn=978-1-4738-7372-8 |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HLJ4EAAAQBAJ |access-date=3 November 2024 |language=en}} 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.{{cn|date=November 2024}}