Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field soldier, General "Ike" slept in a tent with a cot and bedroll. Most of the time he was in danger areas; twice German barrages fell in districts he had just left. Once a flak tower from which he had been observing U.S. artillery fire took hits from 88-mm. guns just after he had climbed down...
Three other battalion commanders in our northern force were wounded the first day. One of them, one of the best known figures in the armed forces, was struck by a 13-mm. shell which punctured his lung, and five pieces of artillery shrapnel which tore into his arm and wrist. I saw him in a foxhole just after the doctors had dressed his wounds...
...until we hit a reef, about 1,000 yards offshore. To our portside a boat had just been hit; its occupants were swimming frantically in every direction, some trying to reach other boats farther out, others heading for shore. Artillery opened up on our four boats-probably 77-mm. guns. It was poor shooting-we made it to the beach...
...simply that it carries a heavier load farther and faster than any other heavy bomber. Total fire power is still under wraps, but it is known that the B-29 is armed with .50-caliber machine guns, aimed and fired by remote control, and that it packs a 20-mm. cannon...
...Others ran over them. The living lay beside the dead and fought with flamethrowers, grenades, bazookas and bangalore torpedoes, which blasted holes in barbed-wire entanglements. From the sea the naval guns did their best to pin down Nazi emplacements. The ancient Texas laid her guns on a 155-mm. battery, blew it up. New waves of men poured ashore like waves of the Channel...