Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourth is now almost fully equipped by 1941 standards (chiefly lacks 105-mm. howitzers). Well up to snuff on the new wrinkles in high-speed modern warfare (which it demonstrates regularly to officer-students at Fort Benning's Infantry School) it expects to get most of its additional equipment in a hurry, in time to show its new punch in the First Army maneuvers, next November, in the Carolinas...
Lieut. Charles R. Yancey and Captain Lowell Bean put together a practical sight for a 75-mm. gun from two lengths of iron pipe (cost: $1), two 15? mirrors, 10? worth of adhesive tape. In casual tests during maneuvers in Tennessee, a gun with their sight got more hits than one with a complicated, expensive, and unsatisfactory affair which the Army had adapted to anti-tank use. General Staff officers and high-ranking artillerymen promptly beat a path to the doors of Yancey & Bean, decided their gadget was worth looking into...
...hundred yards up the road a Blue gun crew bunched about a 37-mm. antitank gun (which, for want of a better piece, counted as effective in these maneuvers). As Kidwell disappeared around the bend they resighted their gun to point at the woods across the road. The trouble would probably come from there. It did, within two minutes, heralded by the splintering crash of fences, the shrieking whine of green trees torn apart...
...Army has a very good tank armor. That fact was proved last week to newsmen who visited the American Car & Foundry Co.'s light-tank plant at Berwick, Pa. A.C.F. showed off its new, remarkably tough 1-inch tank armor by firing 37-mm. shells into sample plates. The shells used in the tests had extra-heavy charges of explosives, but were fired from a standard 37-mm. anti-tank gun at the point-blank range of 100 yards. From A.C.F. armor placed at a sloping angle to the line of fire, the shells bounced without making a dent...
...Army's Ordnance Department used to be proud of its relatively light (850 lb.), highly mobile anti-tank gun. Ordnance officers encouraged reports that the 37-mm. shell could pierce 1½-inch armor at 1,000 yards, tear through even heavier armor at shorter ranges. Ignored or denied were contrary complaints in the Army that the gun had been hastily adapted from an already obsolescent German model, that the U.S. version lacked the punch to stop modern tanks, that at best the gun worked none too well. Even after the Army quietly turned to 75-mm. field pieces...