Word: 88s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Left. The British and Canadians were on the eastern water flank, which was churned by a brisk wind across the Bay of the Seine. Some small landing craft were swamped or impaled on the water barriers, or bobbed helplessly offshore, targets for German 88s and 1553 which had survived the bombardment...
...charge their batteries. The A.A.F. and their comrades of the R.A.F. Coastal Command believed in hitting the sea wolves before they ganged up in packs. At Coffin Corner the 480th fought Germans under the sea and on the surface, also had to fight them in the air. For Junkers 88s and Focke-Wulf 200s patrolled the hunting grounds, first in pairs, finally in formations of eight...
...Italy a unit of 4.2s knocked out a battery of German 88s which weigh several tons. The 4.2 mortar weighs about 300 lb. Broken down into base plate, spade, barrel and standard, it can be manhandled into position by its own crew...
...convoyed North Atlantic freighters, made the "suicide run" to Murmansk and back, turned up smartly for the North African invasion and sank a bothersome Vichyfrench cruiser there. Junkers 88s caught her ten miles off Palermo after the Sicily invasion and almost pounded her to the bottom. She staggered into port and, unable to reply with anything but machine guns, took a stationary beating from German bombers...
...water's edge, in some cases only 50 yd. apart, machine guns were set up facing the sea. Fifty yards from the beach four-barreled machine guns threatened death to anyone coming out of the boats. Behind these were mortars. Only 200 yd. from the beach 88s were employed...