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...your July 23 issue you say a Fort Benning corporal "picked up a 57-mm. cannon . . . aimed it as casually as a shotgun . . . demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away." Secret of the kickless cannon: a backward powder blast through the breach-"a fiery column 12 to 15 ft. long, about 4 ft. in diameter...
...Fort Banning last week a corporal picked up a 57-mm. cannon (which ordinarily weighs 3,000 lbs.), and aimed it as casually as a shotgun. He fired a 2¼-lb. projectile (more than 2 in. in diameter) which demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away. The weight of this cannon: 45 Ibs. There was not enough recoil "to move the skin on my shoulder...
...which will fire any type of shell-including phosphorous-has the accuracy of an M-1 Garand rifle, a maximum range of 2½ miles. A heavier (110-lb.) kickless gun also in service is the 75 mm., which is fired from a tripod no heavier than a machine-gun mount and has a range of more than four miles. The Army's most mobile artillery weapon was formerly the 75-mm. pack howitzer, weighing about...
...They told us that a medium tank cost $90,000; an 81-mm. trench mortar $800; a 60-mm. trench mortar cost $500, and we made the appropriation on that basis." Mr. Engel said he learned later that a medium tank "actually cost" $60,000; an 81-mm. mortar less than $600; a 60-mm. mortar less than...
Kempka said that Guensche had found the two bodies in Hitler's shelter. Hitler was shot through the head; a 7.65-mm. Walther pistol was on the floor beside him. Eva was shot through the heart; a 6.35-mm. pistol was beside her on a sofa...