Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army's motomechanizirovannyia chasti (motorized, tank and mechanized units) also include light, self-propelled 45-mm. guns, slightly larger than those on U.S. light tanks, and bigger (76-mm.) mobile field guns to blast heavily defended enemy points before the tanks attack...
...Aerosphere foresees cannon displacing machine guns almost completely as plane armament before the war ends. "The steel men are manufacturing better armor plate, against which only guns of high caliber can be pitted, calibers which may run as high as 75 mm...
...Plastic petroleum, developed by Gulf Oil for business machines, now lubricates the magazines of the Oerlikon 20-mm. rapid-fire gun. Reason: it stays soft, sticks to metal at arctic and tropic temperatures...
...never knew there were so many goddam machine guns in all the world," he said. These pockets cannot be bypassed because of the neck-deep swamps and sucking mud; they must be assaulted, at whatever cost, and destroyed one by one. The artillery is helping, including American 105-mm. howitzers which were flown into action. But many of the Japanese foxholes are too deep and too cleverly contrived to be wiped out even by the terrific barrages which pour in tons of high explosives each day & night...
...chief job was to provide entertainment for some of the loneliest men on earth. With a 16-mm. projector and a few reels of antediluvian film, Jimmy borrowed a jeep (which now is practically his personal property), started on a series of one-night stands at the various bases. The setup was as simple as Eden. Jimmy would drive up, find a space whacked out of the jungle, set up his screen and put on his show. One of the early screenings was interrupted three times by Japanese bombers. Wrote Jimmy: "We would all dive for the slit trenches until...