Re: 50 years ago today - 22 Aug 1950

[Tom Hickcox <tomh@winconx.com>]

At 20:44 8/22/00 -0400, you wrote:
>The SU-76/SU-76M, better known to the Russians as the "Suka" or "Suchka"
>(both of which mean "bitch") was an interim weapon designed in 1942 to get
>the one successful antitank gun they had -- the 76mm ZIS-3 -- mobile enough
>to deal with German heavy armor. It was mounted in an open casemate on the
>rear of an extended hull of a T-70 light tank.
>
>The SU-76 SP Arty units were fielded in battalions of 12 guns and regiments
>of 36. They were used for the entire course of the war as fast support
>artillery for infantry units. They were one of the first weapons exported by
>the Soviets after the war, and the DPRK got a large number of them when it
>mechanized in 1949-50.
>
>It had a gun capable of knocking out the M4A3 Sherman, but most of them were
>ill served and taken out before they could become a major nuisance.
>
>Cookie Sewell
>AMPS

Cookie,

When these guns were used as artillery rather than anti-armor, were 
they  used in a direct or indirect fire mode?

Tommy