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Back in January 1943, when German planes attacked London for the first time in 14 months, Londoners who had gone through the Great Blitz of 1940-41 were startled less by the raid itself than by the vast, thundering, metal-showering ack-ack barrage thrown up against the raiders...
...field gun, the 45-mm. (1.8-in.) all-purpose gun, the 122-mm. (5-in.) and 152-mm. (6-in.) gun-howitzers-in that order of popularity. The standard antitank gun is the 37-mm. gun, with a 4.5-mile range. The standard ack-ack gun is the 105-mm. gun, with a range of 42,000 feet...
...transferred to Europe. Over jagged, mountainous terrain, Pop and his boys sometimes hurtled only 300 ft. above the ground, sometimes hurtled through the stratosphere, uncovering enemy secrets, with their lenses mapping Italy from the toe up. One of his pilots made six low-level missions through enemy ack-ack around Mt. Cairo, finally got the pictures the Allied commanders needed before they began their attack. Pop himself did much of the photo work on the Anzio beachhead...
...conversation paused during a furious ack-ack barrage, then resumed...
Londoners were smugly sure that Nazi bombers could never get at them in force again. One of the reasons was Britain's radiolocation system, the other its big, trigger-itchy night fighter force. But twice last week bombers pierced London's bristling ack-ack defenses, bombed London and provoked from Winston Churchill the remark: "It's quite like old times again." But it differed from old times in that very little military damage was done and fires were far apart and confined...