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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bigger Guns? The need for more heavy artillery - main U.S. reliance in Italy has been on the 105-mm. howitzer (standard field gun of World War II) and on 155s for heavier work - is illustrated by the comment of one veteran battalion commander on the Cassino front : "The effectiveness of artillery on the offense in this country has been negligible since the Germans are so obviously well...
...Germans held about one-quarter of the town, including a belt of ruined houses under the hill behind. Besides their guns on Hill 165, they had strong artillery positions along the base of Mt. Cassino. As the battle thundered through the desolate streets, huge 240-mm. (9 in.) U.S. guns added their voices to the siege...
...Mm-hmmm. Coming at a time when most Americans are thinking about death in battle, Tender Comrade makes an arduous pretense of facing that tragic fact. But most of the film is a low-gear report about the hard times and good times of War Wives Rogers, Patricia Collinge, Kim Hunter, Ruth Hussey and Mady Christians. They work in an airplane plant, eat and sleep in a house which they run "like a democracy...
...about to take her out when the radio interrupts with the news that her husband's ship has been sunk. Another wife answers Ginger's "Gee, aren't men fools" with "Yeh, but aren't they sweet." (Ginger's eloquent reply: "Mm-hmmm...
...Department authorized the film, but Lieut. Paul Vogel, the chief cameraman, had to do his job with old cameras which he pilfered (for the occasion) from Universal. During the shooting of one snowy sequence these tired machines froze up and he had to use an Eyemo 16 mm...