ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS ORDERED
’ * ■ v ■ ;— O DEFENCE OF AMERICAN KEY CITIES TEN MILLION DOLLARS TO BE SPENT ’(Received September 7, 11.6 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 6. The United States War Department has awarded a 10,000,000-dol-lar contract for rapid-fire anti-air-craft guns sufficient to equip 32 regiments, for the defence of the key cities. The guns will be mounted on mobile units capable of a speed of 50 miles an hour. They will fire French 75-millimetre shells to a height of 30,000
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22501, 8 September 1938, Page 11
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