Word: 155s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from ammunition to cigarets and field kitchens had popped up and were still popping up all along the front. Cursing doughfoots ate cold rations, got along on ten cigarets a day. At one point the Third Army fired captured shells from captured 88s. The First Army served their own 155s with ammunition which had been captured from the French by the Germans in 1940, retaken from the Germans...
...155s. A new U.S. 155-mm. howitzer lobs a 95-lb. shell some 9.3 miles. But the best known of the U.S. 155s is the "Long Tom," a gun* which fires a 95-lb. projectile 14.2 miles...
...155s. A new U.S. 155-mm. howitzer lobs a 95-lb. shell some 9.3 miles. But the best known of the U.S. 155s is the "Long Tom," a gun* which fires a 95-lb. projectile 14.2 miles...
Bigger Guns? The need for more heavy artillery - main U.S. reliance in Italy has been on the 105-mm. howitzer (standard field gun of World War II) and on 155s for heavier work - is illustrated by the comment of one veteran battalion commander on the Cassino front : "The effectiveness of artillery on the offense in this country has been negligible since the Germans are so obviously well...
...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...