Word: 75s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noses and split lips behind, scrappy Battery D landed at Tilbury Docks on the Thames. Then it was shipped to Le Havre, and ten minutes after it arrived was in a fight with British Tommies. At Coëtquidan, the Battery settled down to learning how to fire French 75s. It had already worn out three captains. It was at Coëtquidan that a fourth came along. His name: Harry S. Truman...
...North China, where the Communists hold no large cities and are essentially raiders, the problem is one of cornering and capturing guerrillas. For this purpose light-armed, fast-moving troops are needed, equipped with jeeps, half-tracks, light trucks, small arms, machine guns and 75s. The estimates of the ablest American and Chinese officers indicate that 20 divisions of such troops should be able to clean up North China...
...bitter cold, which have messed up playing conditions for at least three matches--sweating out 36 holes in the wet is no fun--some creditably low tallies have been registered. Tyke Wilcox, lead-off man in the links lineup, has climbed down dangerously close to par, with two 75s, a 76, and 79 to his credit. Ed Egan hit Williams with a 76, and Bill Rickenbacker, Sam Savidge, and Walter Robb have also broken into the wonderful 70s. These five, in addition to Bob Orr, Lincoln Kinnicutt, John Noble, Walt Butler, Joe Gordon, Larry Gray, and Ozzie Keiver make...
Indonesian extremists vainly assaulted the airfield at Batavia. At Ambarawa they laid down a barrage with captured Japanese 75s; the British retaliated with air strikes...
...impressed by the weakness of the Japanese artillery and the failure of the enemy to employ mines with anything like the diabolical thoroughness of Kesselring's Army in Italy. The 1st Imperials have perhaps four .75s on the Ormoc road. Their fire has been woefully ineffective except against an easy point-blank target. . . . You can drive right up to the front without drawing a storm of artillery or getting blown skyhigh by mines...