Assertion: gun's number | /r/HasProperty | issued to the home guard
Facets:
value: as anti-tank weapons
type: MANNER
value: in 1940
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: But he did not abandon the design, and eventually come up with the Blacker Bombard, a swivelling spigot-style system that could launch a 20-pound (9 kg) bomb approximately 100 yards (90 m); although the bombs it fired could not actually penetrate armour, they could still severely damage tanks, and in 1940 a large number of Blacker Bombards were issued to the Home Guard as anti-tank weapons.