Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italian field artillery is curious in being both lighter and heavier than that of most other armies. Instead of the 75-mm. gun common to France, Britain and the U. S., a 65-mm. howitzer is the standard battery weapon, yet each infantry battalion also has nine big 81-mm. mortars. Their antitank and anti-aircraft guns are only 20-mm. (the French 253 proved too light against German tanks), but their machine guns are .50 calibre. Each battalion has 27 automatic rifles (very...
...against mechanized power. Behind the front line were carefully camouflaged batteries of anti-tank and heavy machine guns, spaced fairly widely down the valley and highway pathways of assault. Successive, deeper rows of similar weapons were spaced more & more closely until they were backed finally by batteries of 75-mm. field guns, weapons able to knock out heaviest tanks when fired pointblank. The defense plan was to let heavy tanks push back into this final network, to have the advance units destroy motorcycles, armored cars, troop lorries following the heavy equipment...
...Ormandy announced that, for the opening of the orchestra's summer season at Robin Hood Dell in Fairmount Park, the Pennsylvania National Guard had agreed to supply three 37-mm. anti-tank guns. The local musicians' union demanded that, since cannon are included in Tschaikowsky's score, a union man be hired to shoot them. Very well, replied the Dell management. But the orchestra wished to select a performer "who can play the cannon with due regard to its musical value." So there would be an audition for percussion men who wanted the job of "Symphony Bombardier...
...into two regiments each of two battalions. Each battalion has three light and one medium tank company. Each company is subdivided into four platoons. In the light tank companies three of the platoons consist of three tanks (one the leader's) with a machine gun and a 20-mm. gun apiece, two with two machine guns. The fourth platoon's tanks all carry 37-mm. guns. In addition, a tank company includes headquarters troops (four tanks), passenger cars and trucks for reconnaissance and repair, plus combat, baggage and ration trains and a replacement group...
...battalions equipped with light and heavy machine guns, howitzers, six armored cars and a motorcycle company. In addition to these highly diversified arms, the brigade includes a motorcycle battalion of 28 officers and 947 men with light and heavy machine guns and a field artillery regiment of 24 105-mm. howitzers. The brigade's anti-tank battalion has 36 37-mm. guns...