Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces will need to knock out Germany and go on to finish off Japan was submitted to the House Military Affairs Committee last week by Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. He listed 17 critical items whose production must be stepped up 19% (tanks) to 300% (60mm. and 81-mm. mortars). Some others: heavy artillery ammunition (89%), airborne radar (32%), field and assault wire (50% plus), dry-cell batteries (27%), heavy-duty truck and bus tires...
...troops in Europe got a bad shock when they came up against the giant German Royal Tiger tank. Mounting the German's high-velocity 88-mm. gun, it outshot, outweighed and sometimes even outmaneuvered Allied armored and mobile weapons...
...thing (said Baldwin), the Ardennes battles demonstrated the superiority of the German tanks. The new Hunting Panther and Royal Tiger tanks "are better all-around tanks than anything the Allies now have in the field. . . . With their new 88-mm. guns, very heavy frontal armor and wide tracks, they have more armor, more hitting power and are better mud-goers...
Surprise for Americans. U.S. tanks armed with 75-mm. guns are too light to stop German armor, said Baldwin, "unless they get in close-range lucky side shots. Even the bazooka no longer holds its former terror for some of the German monsters." Heavier 76-mm. and 105-mm. guns are effective "but only at relatively close range." The German 88-mm. "is as good as or better" than the U.S. 90-mm. high-velocity piece (now mounted in the U.S. M36 tank destroyer...
Building of carriers and cruisers has been delayed as much as nine months. Other "critical" items which will run short unless more workers turn to: rockets, high-capacity ammunition, 40-mm. guns, aircraft, repair parts, dry cells, radar, wire and wire rope...