QF 25-pounder (on an M3 or M4 chassis). Despite supply problems, British Commonwealth forces used the M7 throughout the campaigns in North Africa and Italy. North-West Europe During the invasion of Normandy, from June 1944, the artillery regiments of the British 3rd and 50th divisions, and the Canadian 3rd Division were equipped with the M7; however, these were replaced by towed 25-pounder guns in early August. During the Battle of the Bulge, each US armored division had three battalions of M7s, giving them unparalleled mobile artillery support. Pacific War The M7 was also used by US and British forces in Pacific and Asian theaters. During the Burma campaign, the Priest played a significant role, in particular, at the Battle of Meiktila and the advance on Rangoon (1945). From early 1944 it was used in the South West Pacific theater, by the US Sixth Army in the later stages of the campaign in New Guinea and surrounding islands. The M7 also saw action in the Philippines campaign, with the US Eighth and Sixth armies. After World War II Korean War M7 Priests remained in use during the Korean War, where their flexibility, compared to towed artillery units, led the US Army on the path to converting fully to self-propelled howitzers. The limited gun elevation of the M7 (35 degrees) hampered its ability to shoot over the tall Korean mountains, so 127 M7B1s were modified to permit the full 65 degrees elevation in a model known as the M7B2. After the Korean War, many of these were exported to NATO countries, notably Italy and Germany. Israel Israel acquired a number of M7 Priests during the 1960s and employed them in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War where three M7 units, the 822nd, 827th and 829th Battalions in the IDF Northern Command, supported the occupation of the Golan Heights. West Germany The new West German Bundeswehr received 127 Priests as its first self-propelled artillery vehicle. They entered service in 1956 and were used until the early 1960s. Surviving vehicles Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster (German Tank Museum, Munster). Australian Armour and Artillery Museum, in Cairns, in a World War II US Army paint scheme. Vermont National Guard Library and Museum, Colchester, Vermont General George Patton Museum of Leadership, Fort Knox, Kentucky National Guard armory, Starkville, Mississippi. An M7B1 and an M7B2 at the Texas Military Forces Museum in Camp