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

[Tom Hickcox <cometkazie1@home.com>]

At 15:40 10/14/01, AMPSOne@aol.com wrote:

> The
> 76mm guns sound like tanks being used in fire support rather than arty.
> US arty units had dropped the 75 midway through WWII with the exception
> of special purpose weapons (e.g. airborne) like the Pack 75 howitzer.
>
> Cookie Sewell 
> AMPS 

Cookie,

Thanks for the info.  I assume then that the 76mm was a gun with a
relatively high velocity as it sounded like a tank?

They were still firing the 75s at Sill when I went thru officer
orientation in '61, so I assumed they were used in Korea.

They said they were trying to use up the ammo.

Tommy