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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...
...first request show for the U.S. Front. He walked through it as usual, easing around the Hollywood studio in a blue slack suit, looking, without his movie toupee, like a rapid-fire kewpie. For MacArthur's artillerymen he sang Those Caissons Go Rolling Along-and added "those 155s keep dishing...
...anti-tank battalion, will soon get an anti-aircraft battalion, and a third regiment of infantry. Its weapon strength has been multiplied beyond the fondest dreams of any gun crank. It has 3,997 machine guns (including 1,460 Tommy-guns). It has 284 cannon, ranging from blunt-snouted 155s and 105s for the artillery to slim 75s for anti-tank work. And it rides in an assortment of 2,900-odd vehicles...
...give the Fourth bigger fists and nimbler feet, while its fire power will be upped its man power will be cut-from 15,550 to 14,000. Machine-gun equipment will go up from 282 to 465, cannon (75s, 105s and 155s) from 48 to 66. Ten armored scout cars will be added to the 16 now in the reconnaissance troop. Fifty-two light and 54 medium tanks will be added to blast a way for the Fourth's infantrymen, who will ride to battle in halftrack caterpillar troop carriers...
...soon to be replaced by 603 troop carriers with caterpillar treads). Each infantry outfit was followed by a battalion of artillery with 75-mm. guns (soon to be replaced by the new 105-mm. howitzers). Farther back came the division's big guns, a battalion of bigmouthed, ugly 155s. Like the other artillerymen, its gun crews rode on big trucks (soldiers call them "prime movers...