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...rifle grenades, 36,000,000 pairs of goggles, 52,000,000 lb. of soap, 98,000,000 lb. of chemical-warfare defensive agents, 13,500,000,000 rounds of .30-and .50-caliber ammunition, 109,200.000 rolls of gauze bandage, 617,000,000 tablets of sulfadiazine, 20,000 75-mm. tank guns...
Bigger Guns? The need for more heavy artillery - main U.S. reliance in Italy has been on the 105-mm. howitzer (standard field gun of World War II) and on 155s for heavier work - is illustrated by the comment of one veteran battalion commander on the Cassino front : "The effectiveness of artillery on the offense in this country has been negligible since the Germans are so obviously well...
...Germans in stone houses and strong points, U.S. 8-in. and 240-mm. howitzers are now being used because of their greater penetrating and greater blasting power. (The first pictures of 2403 being used in Italy were released this week.) But apparently the big fellows are not available on the Anzio beachhead...
There the German 170-mm. rifle shoots right across to the beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
...Germans held about one-quarter of the town, including a belt of ruined houses under the hill behind. Besides their guns on Hill 165, they had strong artillery positions along the base of Mt. Cassino. As the battle thundered through the desolate streets, huge 240-mm. (9 in.) U.S. guns added their voices to the siege...