Student soldiers learn to ride the bucking 50 calibers
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Student soldiers learn to ride the bucking 50 calibers
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Title: Student soldiers learn to ride the bucking 50 calibers
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Chan effective for offense or defense,
these .50 caliber machine guns of the |
62nd Coast Artillery (antiaircraft) Bat- |
talion at Fort Tilden, New York, are a good |
example of where a modern army gets its |
tremendous fire power. In a single minute
each gun can spit 600 bullets, with a total |
weight of 150 pounds, and each bullet can |
penetrate 5% of an inch of armor plate at
a 500-yard range, or six inches of concrete
at 100 yards. Firing one of them for the |
first time is like climbing on the back of a |
wild horse. These are basically the same |
weapons that are being installed in modern
tanks, planes, and torpedo boats, though in
many cases these latter are air-cooled in- |
stead of liquid-cooled. Gun crews for these |
“chatterboxes,” consisting of a corporal
and five men, require strong arms, healthy
nerves, and months of training. |
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Eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1941-03
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90-95
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public domain
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Sami Akbiyik
Popular Science Monthly, v. 138, n. 3 1941
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