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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Re: Bofors 40mm AA in WW2
- Message-ID: <Bxo1D0.6H3@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:46:12 GMT
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- From ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
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- >In article <Bx5CsC.IpH@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil> writes:
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- >> The Sherman Firefly mounted a variation of the British 17 pounder AT
- >> gun, nominally of 77mm. There was also a US upgunned Sherman mounting
- >> a 76mm gun, a rough equivalent of the 17 pounder. Both apparently
- >> worked well.
- >The US 76mm gun was used on the HVSS "easy eight" Sherman from memory but I'll
- >have to check this one out as well.
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- >Rob
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- It suddenly struck me that throughout all this, the usual
- American practice of expressing things in inches seems to
- have been abandoned by the artillery people. While the Bri-
- tish stuck to their peculiar "how much does an iron ball
- of this diameter weigh" measure, the American gunners seem
- to have adopted millimeters while the rest of the country
- was still thinking in terms of thousandths of inches, inches
- and cubic inches - I imagine a 76mm gun might be called a
- 6.08 caliber gun.. was this due, perhaps, to American sol-
- diers using French equipment during the First World War?
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