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Originally Posted by Skipper
Fascinating!It's really interesting to read how these canons were used. I've always wondered why there weren't more 105mm vs the German 88mm . I guess it was cheaper to get the 75.
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Yeah, they were cheaper, but mainly they were small enough that a mule could pack them up those steep mountain trails. The 88s were pretty compact, so they worked OK in the mountains. So why didn't we Yanks produce a 90mm? Good question. Which leads to another question I asked svl years after WW2.
The occasion was during a discussion with an ex-Marine -- we were kind of buddies (altho he never let me forget I had been a mere mortal and he had been a MARINE
). I asked him, "Pete, I could never figure out how we won the war, 'cause I saw so many really STUPID things that came down the chain of command. How come we won?"
"Simple, Bill ... we were fighting against a military MORE STUPID than we were!"
Bill