A 37 mm gun mounted on a "wobble plate" to train gunners
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A 37 mm gun mounted on a "wobble plate" to train gunners
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Jittergun trains tank marksmen
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By PRACTICING with a 37-mm. gun
mounted on a “wobble plate” that
can be made to rear and buck like a rodeo
bronco, students at the Army's Tank
Gunnery School at Fort Knox, Ky., soon
learn the trick of hitting a moving target
1,000 yards away while bouncing around
inside a rough-riding tank. Mounted in
the school’s indoor range and operated by
two men — one loading, the other aim-
ing and firing —the big gun actually
fires only .22 caliber, bullets, which pass
through the center of the dummy shell
the loader rams into the breech. At the
other end of the range, only 1,000 inches
away, are the targets—models of men
and tanks scaled down to appear 1,000
yards distant and moving at an apparent
speed of 20 miles an hour. Operated
electrically, the wobble plate is made to
pitch and roll in simulation of a tank
rolling over rough terrain at about 20
miles an hour. After only three days’
training, students are said to be able to
score an average of three hits out of
every five shots.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Robert F. Smith (photographer)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1944-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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99
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 5, 1944
