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  • In the distance, a 378-foot Coast Guard cutter — complete with helicopter and 76-mm cannon — looks puny compared with the car carrier.

    High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace Joshua Davis Don Foley 2008

  • In the distance, a 378-foot Coast Guard cutter — complete with helicopter and 76-mm cannon — looks puny compared with the car carrier.

    High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace 2008

  • Even the upgunned 76-mm and 17-pounder versions suffered problems from the fierce flash when they fired, making it difficult for the crews to observe fall of shot.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • Even the upgunned 76-mm and 17-pounder versions suffered problems from the fierce flash when they fired, making it difficult for the crews to observe fall of shot.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • Even the upgunned 76-mm and 17-pounder versions suffered problems from the fierce flash when they fired, making it difficult for the crews to observe fall of shot.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • Even the upgunned 76-mm and 17-pounder versions suffered problems from the fierce flash when they fired, making it difficult for the crews to observe fall of shot.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • The Russian force was a mixed group of tanks, cavalry, and a few gun crews with 76-mm. 's.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • Certainly Richthofen, had he been properly directed, could have done more about the Russian 76-mm. batteries on the east bank, whose fire deterred the 6th Army from operating too close to the river.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • All night on the 23rd and during the morning of 24th November, men and tractors hauled and struggled with battery after battery of 76-mm. guns across the frozen earth.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • A Russian 76-mm. anti-tank gun at the eastern end of the street opens fire; the range is less than fifty yards, but it seems to have missed, and at once the whole scene becomes animated in a storm of noise and pain.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

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