Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strips George Kenney soon was landing 2,000,000 lb. of supplies a week. In a single day he delivered 519,000 lb.-100 planeloads. He flew in a 250-bed hospital with enough equipment to maintain it for ten days. He delivered a four-gun battery of 105-mm. howitzers, with tractors to haul them and crews to operate them. A Flying Fortress is designed to carry no more than 6,000 lb.; a 105-mm. howitzer unit weighs 7,000. Kenney flew the guns 1,500 miles from Australia and delivered them over weather-treacherous...
...Tactically Logical Cruiser for Modern War was what Author Peter Marsh Stanford called his unorthodox proposal. Besides four 14-in. guns it would carry, as anti-aircraft protection, twenty-four 5-in. and eighteen 40-mm. guns, four multiple pom-poms plus machine guns, six planes with two catapults on the quarterdeck and sixteen 21-in. torpedo tubes. Such a mighty cruiser, said Stanford, would be necessarily shorter, fatter and slower than the Brooklyn, but anyway "no ship can ever be designed fast enough to run away from enemy aircraft...
...mm. howitzer mounted on a medium-tank chassis, which helped beat Rommel. Because of a pulpitlike antiaircraft mount, the British call it The Priest...
...mm. howitzer, amazingly accurate over a range of 20 miles or more, a weapon of high mobility that would be valuable in reducing strong points during a stalemate...
...than usually is gleaned from prisoners. Captured guns, tanks and ammunition go back to Aberdeen Proving Ground, 35 miles northeast of Baltimore. Close examination not only reveals secrets of design and operation but often gives an insight to the enemy's general materiel situation. Example: a German 88-mm. gun at Aberdeen has a three-piece barrel, indicating shortages of certain materials. The U.S. 20 years ago stopped manufacturing similar weapons in this obsolete manner...