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Show TOOELE ORDNANCE DEPOT Of particular interest to the Field Service Maintanance Div-sion Div-sion at Tooele Ordnance Depot Is the following story of Army artillery. ar-tillery. When the dwindlng number of enemy planes doesn't provide enough targets for anticraft guns the gunners lower their barrels and convert the guns to field artillery ar-tillery work. Sgt. Conrad W. Hermann, 16 Pine street, Wo'oorn, Massachusetts, Massachus-etts, who recently returned from duty with an antiaircraft battalion battal-ion overseas, told about the splend id. performance of the Ordnance Department's 90 mm gun. "We can fire as many as 20 rounds per minute. We have been firing so rapidly that our own infantry have asked us if the gun is loaded by clips. The 90 mm has been -ery effective against batteries of 88 mm guns, The German prisoners we have captured say that our 90 mm is scaring the hell out of them. The muzzle velocity is so rapid that they have no warning. It's a bang and the round hits " |