Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officer told of seeing German tracers ripping through other men's parachutes as they descended. In one plane nine soldiers had dived through the plane's door; the tenth, laden with his 90 pounds of equipment, got momentarily stuck. A 20-mm. shell hit him in the belly. Fuse caps in his pockets began to go off. Part of the wounded man's load was TNT. Before this human bomb could explode, his mates behind him pushed him out. The last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth...
...tough bit of element, I suddenly found myself working alone. My two pals just gurgled and dis appeared under the water." In those early hours Rangers had gone ashore in LCTs under cover of darkness. At one point, atop a 200-ft. cliff, were six 155-mm. guns which could sweep the sea approaches. The Rangers shot a grappling hook to the top of the cliff. One of them climbed a rope hand over hand, carrying rope ladders which he made se cure. Up swarmed the Rangers; took the gun positions, knocked them out with TNT. Infantry...
...wide and 6' deep. We landed in the middle of the damn thing, took one bounce and was in the woods. . . . Well we sighted the tanks and they were running like maniacks up over a hill. . . . There were fifteen tanks so we started blazing away with the 75-mm. blanks. When we were within 300 yards of the tanks they started firing back, what a noise. The tanks aroaring, the 75's going off, and the machine guns started. ... I am sore today. My arms and body, just all of me. I wouldn't be in that...
There was an emergency crank for just such a situation. It had been cut off neatly by a 20-mm. shell...
...complicated. Quarters for five officers and 48 men, plus space for 50 passengers (e.g., tank crewmen), besides stowage space and lockers are all in narrow hives in her high sides. In between is her big open well, where she will carry tanks and trucks. For protection she mounts 20-mm. antiaircraft guns...