Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mm. field howitzer, truck-drawn, is identical except that it has a split-trail carriage and cannot be broken down into pack loads. These 75-mm.s fire a 15-lb. shell better than 5.3 miles...
...105s. The "all-purpose weapon" Of the war is a 105-mm. howitzer, which has superseded the World War I 75-mm. as an organic light artillery weapon. In U.S. infantry divisions, three artillery battalions are each equipped with twelve of these weapons. The 105-mm. howitzer fires a 33-lb. projectile approximately 6.9 miles...
Mounted on a self-propelled M-7 motor carriage, this piece became famous in Egypt as "the Priest," the antitank weapon with the pulpitlike machine-gun mount which broke Rommel's desert line. Another, a modified 105-mm. with a shorter muzzle and mounted on the same carriage as the 75-mm., is used by airborne artillery and infantry heavy weapons units...
...155s. A new U.S. 155-mm. howitzer lobs a 95-lb. shell some 9.3 miles. But the best known of the U.S. 155s is the "Long Tom," a gun* which fires a 95-lb. projectile 14.2 miles...
There is another 155-mm. which U.S. artillerymen set much store by: a World War I gun mounted on a medium tank chassis (the M-12), making a highly mobile weapon which is used either in normal artillery fire (e.g., at unseen targets) or in direct fire, as on tanks...