Word: 155s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson shells dominated the rest of the afternoon, however, as both the Yardling and Junior Varsity 155s and the third varsity heavies won their races...
Sizzling Barrels. In the lowering weather, there was no U.N. air support. The U.N.'s booming Long Tom 155s, 105-mm. howitzers and multiple heavy machine guns filled the valleys with their clamor. Gun barrels got so hot that they sizzled in the rain. Supply truck crews struggling through red-brown mud quickly dumped their shell loads at new gun positions and headed back for more...
...enemy has large numbers of big, radar-directed AA. guns, 88-or 85-mm. (and possibly a few long-range 120s or 155s; U.S. Sabre jets have occasionally reported flak bursts above 30,000 ft.). He also has an even larger quantity of smaller guns, 37-and 20-mm. cannon and 12.7-mm. heavy machine guns. And he has radar-directed searchlights, which can hold a night-flying U.N. plane transfixed. The U.N. is using newfangled electronic jamming against the enemy radar on the big guns, but the fact is that most U.N. planes lost to ground fire are downed...
...camel's nose. Finally we got a few men into some abandoned enemy trenches and had a good view of his positions, but we had one platoon badly chopped up. I was hitting them with 57-and 75-mm. guns, 81-mm. mortars, and 155s from the rear. But we just couldn't get 'em all, and we withdrew under heavy mortar fire. We had to leave some of our wounded. A patrol got them out later, but they were all dead...