Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been having many fascinating training films of late. Most recent was "The Anti-Submarine Platoon in the Attack, Supported by a Section of 60-mm Mortars...
...Suddenly we bolted forward. The pup-pup-pup of 20-mm. guns on the landing barges sounded like an irritable Fourth of July. Leathery men, with their garishly daubed faces, clenched their guns with sweaty hands, gritted their teeth and stared with frantic concentration at the shoulders of the men ahead...
Pilots in New Guinea said that the new plane was about the same size as the old Zeros (about 38-39 ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long); was powered by an in-line V-type engine (the various Zeros have radial, air-cooled engines); had armor; carried one 7.7-mm. machine gun in each wing and two 12.7-mm. machine guns in the nose. In armament, the Japs had evidently borrowed some ideas from the Americans' destructive .50-caliber machine guns, to which the 12.7 roughly corresponds. New Guinea flyers said that the newcomer could outdive...
...dusk two battalions with their artillery had been completely cut off, and another was in danger. One battalion, sadly thinned, was pulled back from the hills by the Sele. All were grouped in close defensive rings. The 105-mm. guns were turned around, faced the way the regiment had marched the night before. Only 15 rounds remained for each gun, and they were silent...
Seaman Allen L. Gordon went on the operating table in a South Pacific base hospital with one extra worry: he knew he might blow up. While on duty aboard a battleship he had been struck by a 20-mm. anti-aircraft shell which slashed into his belly, lodged in his left hip, freakishly did not explode...