Word: 105s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons unknown, the Germans did not attack that night. Next morning artillery thundered in the distance, a relief column appeared under German fire, and the battalion 105s spat their hoarded ammunition. Cabled Correspondent Lang...
Quick Murder. Most spectacular development is time fire. By 1941, with 105s replacing 75s, field artillery had abandoned shrapnel for a more effective, more easily controlled shell which could be regulated to explode directly above its target. Bursting at a height of 15 yards, a 105 time-fire shell sprays an area 40 yards wide and five yards deep with razor-sharp, saw-toothed shell fragments. No gun is completely accurate, but with massed time fire blanketing huge areas pinpoint accuracy is no longer a problem...
Massed artillery fire was old in World War I (Napoleon used it first), but standards set at Sill are incredible to oldtime two-percenters.* Twenty-five seconds after the target is pointed out, shells from a dozen 105s are on their way-an hour would be comparable 25 years ago. In routine exercises more than 100 guns obliterate targets 800 yards square less than five minutes after they are assigned-incredible by the standards at Soissons or Saint-Mihiel. Some of this speed-up comes from having changed the firing unit from the battery of four guns to the battalion...
Australian and American artillery set the broad-leafed jungles aquiver last week as they roared an unexpected challenge to the Japs in Salamaua. Somehow through the jungles Allied 105s and other artillery had miraculously been lugged into position. With the aid of the guns Allied troops began storming the gates of the Japanese stronghold. Having chopped and shot their way through jungle to within five miles of it, they now needed artillery to battle for high ground...
Because the new tank wastes no space, carries a lot of its weight in armor, it looks almost as small as a medium. Only 75s and 105s, loaded with armor-piercing -shells, would be effective against it. Although many a layman was skeptical of the new machine, figuring that few bridges would bear its weight, Army men knew that it could be utilized with devastating effect in open country. In action against other tanks, it is expected to have the power of battleship, the maneuverability of a destroyer...