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What the hell sense does that make?" The Colonel's Cigars. Leipzig had 1,000 ack-ack guns, but they caused surprisingly little trouble. Most were captured intact. Nevertheless a hail of small-arms fire, and some shells from 88s and 105s, met the 2nd and 69th Infantry Divisions fighting their way in. The doughboys mopped up resistance, except for a nest of Germans, including the garrison commander holed up in the huge, red granite "Battle of the Nations" monument (a memorial to the defeat of Napoleon by a Prussian-Austrian-Russian-Swedish coalition...
...Cannon's Mouth. Along a strip inland from the beach they drove some 1,500 yards into our positions before they were stopped. They got all the way into an artillery battalion which had moved twelve 105s into position the night, before. There they were stopped, and there the most forward of them died...
...105s. The "all-purpose weapon" Of the war is a 105-mm. howitzer, which has superseded the World War I 75-mm. as an organic light artillery weapon. In U.S. infantry divisions, three artillery battalions are each equipped with twelve of these weapons. The 105-mm. howitzer fires a 33-lb. projectile approximately 6.9 miles...
...105s. The "all-purpose weapon" Of the war is a 105-mm. howitzer, which has superseded the World War I 75-mm. as an organic light artillery weapon. In U.S. infantry divisions, three artillery battalions are each equipped with twelve of these weapons. The 105-mm. howitzer fires a 33-lb. projectile approximately 6.9 miles...
...beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...