Word: anti-tank
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...Army has a very good tank armor. That fact was proved last week to newsmen who visited the American Car & Foundry Co.'s light-tank plant at Berwick, Pa. A.C.F. showed off its new, remarkably tough 1-inch tank armor by firing 37-mm. shells into sample plates. The shells used in the tests had extra-heavy charges of explosives, but were fired from a standard 37-mm. anti-tank gun at the point-blank range of 100 yards. From A.C.F. armor placed at a sloping angle to the line of fire, the shells bounced without making a dent...
...fine demonstration, but among the things it showed was the fact that the Army's anti-tank gun, even when firing overcharged shells, could not stop a light tank armored with A.C.F. plate...
...during World War I manufactured 64 tanks; last week it was producing 13 per day. It produced 1,642 light and heavy artillery pieces during World War I; its planned (but by no means attained) production of a single type of anti-tank gun for World War II is almost four times that total. The U.S. last week had an Army of 1,300,000 poorly equipped, as yet half-trained men; not until nine months after World War I was declared did the U.S. of 1917 have that many poorly equipped, skimpily trained...
...anti-aircraft as well as other items, Ordnance is shooting for the moon and setting tentative (if always out-of-date) goals. It wants, for example, 6,000-plus 37-mm. anti-aircraft guns-apparently a good weapon against low flying planes (present production, 20 per month; desired production, 300 per month); 6,500-plus 37-mm. anti-tank guns-probably not heavy enough against modern tanks (current output: twelve per month); 400 or more 155-mm. field guns (current production: none); 3,500 light tanks (production now a promising 13 a day, being pushed toward 100); 1,800 medium...
...Mexico. Last week a Fifth of May parade through the streets of Puebla capped the exercises. Almost 10,000 marched before Mexico's military-minded President General Manuel Avila Camacho, and the parade marked the first public appearance of some new U.S.-made, truck-drawn 75-mm. anti-tank guns...