Word: trucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field howitzer, truck-drawn, is identical except that it has a split-trail carriage and cannot be broken down into pack loads. These 75-mm.s fire a 15-lb. shell better than 5.3 miles...
...supremacy too. Major General John ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, tactical air commander in Italy, boasted that his planes had knocked out rail communication so completely that no through trains had moved from the Po Valley to the Gustav line since March 24; the Germans had to rely on truck transport, chiefly at night, over Highway No. 7 -the Via Appia-and Highway No. 6-Via Casilina...
...Uncle Joe" Cannon's Twelfth Air Force was at work over the lines. It also ranged north into the Germans' rear areas, smashing bridges, shooting up railroad and truck trains. It was busy every hour of the day at what Joe Cannon called its "strangling operation." General Cannon had given his airman's word that all heavy communications from the north had been cut days before the battle began, and that they would stay cut. If his judgment was correct, the men on the ground could plow forward with hope at their grim job: making the Germans...
Newest 8-in. weapon in the U.S. arsenal is the gun which throws a 240-lb. shell up to 19.8 miles. Two 38-ton tractors are required to haul the gun and its carriage into place. A 20-ton truck-mounted crane goes along to assemble the two parts...
Then finishing up, the countryside between here and Wellesley will never forget the horrendous spectacle of the "Good Time Boys" and their respective dates piled into a borrowed pick-up truck being caught in a sudden shower and unloading in the middle of Harvard Square...