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Berlin was up quickly. He took the wheel, drove the ship in a small, speedy circle. Other planes were coming in at the LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry). Its 20-mm. machine guns opened up and the first burst hit the belly of a plane which blew up above the Who, Me? and went on into the sea. Two others crashed; the burning planes lit the dusk...
Infighting foot soldiers have found the rifle grenade a handy battle tool. One rifle company in Sicily stopped six enemy tanks with these iron pineapples. In the South Pacific, rifle grenades (used mainly against enemy positions) neatly filled the range between the hand grenade and the 60-mm. mortar. Previously fired only from the old Springfield, the rifle grenade has now been fitted for firing with the Garand and the carbine...
Foreign Guns. "Our ships have by far the best anti-aircraft armament of any in the world. But only the 5-in. guns are of American design. The 40-mm. gun and the 20-mm. gun are of foreign design...
...been having many fascinating training films of late. Most recent was "The Anti-Submarine Platoon in the Attack, Supported by a Section of 60-mm Mortars...
...Suddenly we bolted forward. The pup-pup-pup of 20-mm. guns on the landing barges sounded like an irritable Fourth of July. Leathery men, with their garishly daubed faces, clenched their guns with sweaty hands, gritted their teeth and stared with frantic concentration at the shoulders of the men ahead...