Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanks came out of the hills, reached and crossed the Gela-Vittoria road, shot up some amphibious trucks, lobbed shells over divisional headquarters toward the shore 800 yards from the tanks. The defending units had no infantry, no antitank guns to stop the tanks. There was only artillery - 105-mm. howitzers, designed for other work-and Bofors anti-aircraft guns...
...Deeds. "Escort Carrier B," in four sustained engagements, attacked eleven U-boats, scored two sure kills, four "very probables" and four "probables." Her planes allowed no enemy submarine to get closer than 18 miles to the convoy. Her casualties: one TBF damaged by 20-mm. ack-ack from a U-boat, its radio operator wounded...
D.N.B. also conceded that Britain and Russia were developing tanks "along the right lines," but hastened to add lyrical praise for the "impregnable" German "Tiger" tanks (which Allied experts consider clumsy). Of the new American tank destroyers, with their 105-mm. and three-inch high-velocity guns, D.N.B. said not a word...
High among the puffy white clouds over Kiel both the pilot and co-pilot of the B-17 Worry Wart were knocked out. Below-zero cold froze the pilot's hands and feet. The co-pilot was dead, a 20-mm. shell through his breast. Ugly flak blossoms unfolded on all sides. In & out among the clouds darted droves of enemy fighters. Worry Wart's chances of getting back to England were next to zero...
...three months crews of ten Fortresses (100 men) wore the armor, plus regulation steel helmets, on regular missions over Europe. Grow's figures showed that at least nine owed their lives to it; many more were saved from serious wounds. One man survived a 20-mm. shel' which exploded two feet from his head...