Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is another 155-mm. which U.S. artillerymen set much store by: a World War I gun mounted on a medium tank chassis (the M-12), making a highly mobile weapon which is used either in normal artillery fire (e.g., at unseen targets) or in direct fire, as on tanks...
...Heavies. Mightiest of the mobile weapons are the 8-in. and 240-mm., which have to be transported in two parts (barrel and carriage). U.S. artillerymen consider their most accurate weapon the 8-in. howitzer, which fires a 200-lb. shell 10.5 miles...
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...
...pack howitzer is the principal 75-mm. weapon. *Broken down, it is moved on the backs of mules. It is also the organic weapon for paratroop field artillery units. Dropped in seven loads, the 75-mm. can reach action seven minutes after crew and parts leave the plane...
...105s. The "all-purpose weapon" Of the war is a 105-mm. howitzer, which has superseded the World War I 75-mm. as an organic light artillery weapon. In U.S. infantry divisions, three artillery battalions are each equipped with twelve of these weapons. The 105-mm. howitzer fires a 33-lb. projectile approximately 6.9 miles...