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Re: Korea -- 50 years ago this week Oct. 11-17, 1951



At 10:10 10/14/01, Mike Davino wrote:

>The infantry received a tremendous amount of artillery
>and air support. In artillery support, 76-mm guns
>fired 62,000 rounds; 105-mm howitzers, 401,000 rounds;
>105-mm, 84,000 rounds; and 8-inch howitzers, 13,000
>rounds. Crews of 60-mm, 81-mm and 4.2-inch mortars
>fired 119,000 rounds. In addition, 57-mm and 75-mm
>recoilless rifle teams fired 18,000 rounds.

I appreciate this informative post, but I wonder if the 76mm Arty wasn't 
75mm & is the second 105mm/84,000 rounds perhaps 155mm?

Tommy