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Thousands of his craft are already in service, from two-seater trainers to troop carriers. Standard CG-4A glider, worked out by the Army and Waco Aircraft, is a burly, 3,600-lb. flying boxcar that carries 15 men, or an armed jeep, or a 105-mm. howitzer to battle. Three can be towed by a single C-47 (military DC-3) transport...
...places, to drive up the broad valleys. Doubtless he had concentrated in those valleys the things which General Eisenhower last week said had become, not just an obstacle, but a weapon in Tunisia-the land mine. On the hills Kesselring was deeply dug in, with plenty of the 81-mm. mortars which have always been a weapon but are especially an obstacle in Tunisia...
...prewar favorites have gone down the drain: the 37-mm. anti-aircraft gun (replaced for medium altitude firing by the Bofors 40-mm.) and the famed 75-mm. field artillery piece (which gives way to the higher-velocity 3-in. gun that can stop any tank seen thus far). Infantry divisions still get some 37-mm. guns for anti-tank defense but will eventually replace them with six-wheeled...
...Production of mortars-both the 60-mm. and 81-mm. - will increase rapidly. U.S. mortars have stood the test...
...djebels were taken. Between them lay a hollow with a huge, V-shaped anti-tank ditch and behind the ditch a nest of 88-mm. guns. The enemy had dug their ditch well, using pneumatic drills to get deep into the rocky subsurface. A British battalion was sent in to clean out that pocket of resistance. It was mean work, but they...