"The 155 was designed to lob big heavy shells a long way. Set up as an artillery piece, it wasn't at maneuverable, having almost no traverse. But set up on a tank chassis, you could bring that big muzzle down level and blow a Tiger clean back to Berlin. Pretty handy against pillboxes and fortified emplacements, too. You put a one-five-five on a Panther or half-track, all you got left is a fine field-gray mist."
Sgt. Stan Kowalski, M-4 gunner, Third Armored Division
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"I was a loader in a Tiger I. We were confident that American tanks were no match for us. In engagements with Shermans, their shot bounced off our plate. Our first encounter with an American 155mm self-propelled gun was on a road outside St. Lo. It fired on our column broadside from a drainage ditch. The turret of the Tiger in front of us blew off and landed fifty meters away in a pear orchard."
Panzer Schⁿtze Hermann Muenster, Panzer Lehr Division
