Word: m3
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murphy knew about production. British-born, he had come to the U.S. in 1909, worked since then as a traction executive in Pittsburgh, New York, Albany. He took off his coat, had M3's clanking off the assembly lines five months later...
...slugs, can be fired with fair accuracy at short range (as with any submachine gun, the closer the better). Of all-metal construction, the M-3 weighs less than nine pounds, compared to twelve for the famous Thompson "tommy-gun," a standard Army weapon whose relationship to the humble M3" is approximately that of a chronometer to a dollar watch. (Even in quantity production the Thompson gun costs about $40 to make; the M-3 is fabricated mainly from stamped parts and can be turned out for something less than...
...first lesson concerned fire power. After having scoffed at the U.S. Army for the way it "overgunned" its tanks (a 75-mm. cannon, a 37-mm. cannon and four .30-caliber machine guns in the Chrysler M3, for instance), the British found that fire power is the first requirement of a tank-eating tank. Their own tanks, whose primary armament consists of the two-pounder gun (approximately the same as the 37-mm. cannon), were no match for German tanks carrying thirteen-pounders (roughly...
About 1,000 yards away, a radio-controlled, empty light tank lurched into view, quartered across the rough test ground. M3 set off in pursuit. Because the Army wanted to use the light tank again, Colonel Williams and his six-man civilian crew fired only their machine guns. Colonel Christmas explained what would happen to the light tank if Colonel Williams turned loose his 75: "We would send a dump truck out on the range and bring back a pile of old iron." As M3 gathered speed, a visible streak of .30 caliber bullets smashed into the hull and tracks...
...radical departure in tank armament, gave M3 tremendous fire power. Said Colonel Williams: "We weren't trying for top firing speed with the big gun. . . . We might get up as high as 30 a minute." Any such rate of fire would take some doing. Two men load and fire the 75. The loader has to kneel in a tiny steel coop. Between the breech and a bulkhead, he has about three feet in which to work. When the gun recoils, he has something less than two feet. At 30 rounds a minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract...