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...trying to bull its way through trouble, the Second had violated another Pattonism. Meeting abler anti-tank tactics from the 27th and 30th than it had expected, it had lost many tanks. D.S.C.Man Patton had warned them of the danger of 75s along the roadside. Said he (amended version): "Never engage in a scenting match with a skunk." The Second, relying on its own strength, had failed to use its infantry, and the failure had been expensive. It had also failed to coordinate its work with its allied Fifth Division, and been cited by the umpires for the failure...
...Conquer or Die." While the French fought north of Laon and St. Quentin with herds of tanks and massed 75s (see p. 25) to stem the German swing-the general commanding the French II Army led its tank counterattack in person-history stood still for France and Great Britain. The world's battle was to decide whether Adolf Hitler's apocalypse really showed him the future of Western civilization "for the next 1,000 years." At least 80 German infantry divisions were in it and ten of twelve Nazi mechanized divisions. At least 5,000 planes with crosses...
...trucks mired in the mud, the metallic jangle of troops in large numbers on the move. To the Allies this could mean only one thing: the Germans were moving up troops along the entire front, perhaps were readying for an attack in force. Into action went French artillery -slim 75s, big-mouthed 155s, even a few long-snouted railroad guns of big calibre, firing across the line for the first time since the war began...
...stagnant trenches of 1914-18. Its reconnaissance cars (mechanized cavalry) spurted 75 and 100 miles ahead, keeping tabs with headquarters by two-way radio. Its horsed cavalry rode to battle and sent its mounts back while it did its fighting. Motorized field artillery (still largely the World War French 75s, improved to give faster fire and greater range) rolled into place behind motorized infantrymen, who made long marches by truck. New mortars arched shells into supposed enemy lines with an accuracy never approached in 1918. "Silhouette" machine-gun units went into battle firing from low-slung trucks. Some...
Near University Hall is one of the well-known French "75s," which saw action in France. It has been proved and it is admitted by artillerymen of all nations that this gun, after 20 years, has never been surpassed by any gun of approximately its calibre...