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...backbone of Voronov's artillery is formed of the 76.2-mm. (3-in.) field gun, the 45-mm. (1.8-in.) all-purpose gun, the 122-mm. (5-in.) and 152-mm. (6-in.) gun-howitzers-in that order of popularity. The standard antitank gun is the 37-mm. gun, with a 4.5-mile range. The standard ack-ack gun is the 105-mm. gun, with a range of 42,000 feet...
...under any nickname, Penelope* never took an enemy attack lying down. In 24 days of action her own guns fired 35,000 6-in. shells, 6,500 4-in., 20,000 two-pounders and 8,000 20-mm. Oerlikon shells...
...Retreat. When he had run out of rifles and the enemy was closing in, Kelly snatched up 60-mm. mortar shells, pulled the safety pins and threw them as hand grenades. One burst killed five Nazis. But that could not go on indefinitely. The detachment had to pull...
...Infantry Flees. Tanks within the town hugged the buildings to escape German shelling. One Sherman was hit and set afire beside an outpost building with one room intact. Privates Tony de Meo (Brooklyn) and Fred Ratcliff (Pontiac, Mich.) sweated as the tank's 75-mm. shells began to explode just outside the room. Then they vaulted from the window and dashed to safety with snipers' bullets pinging through the air around them...
...bombers came on, 226 of them, Fortresses, Liberators, Mitchells and Marauders, roaming the cloudless sky undisturbed, dropping their bombs with exquisite exactness. Between the waves of bombers the artillery Long' Toms and 240-mm. howitzers pumped shells up the hill. The mountain seemed to jump and quiver, like a great bear twitching in sleep. Observers counted 200 men, some allegedly in uniform, scurrying out of the devastated monastery. As the next-to-last wave of 20 Marauders dropped a cluster smack on the abbey, an American soldier yelled: "Touchdown...