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...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...
...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...
...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...