America’s Weird and Deadly “Goon Gun”
Received Friday, 8.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 10. A newly perfected 4.2-incli mortar nicknamed the “goon gun” has been added to the store of the U.S. Army’s weird but deadly weapons. The War Department revealed that it was first used in the invasion of-' Sicily and is now used in every major theatre. The goon gun looks like a stovepipe supported on a tee square. I can lob a score of 241 b. shells two and a half miles in sixty seconds. It weighs less than 3001bs. and is carried by its crew whon dismantled.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 58, 11 March 1944, Page 5
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100America’s Weird and Deadly “Goon Gun” Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 58, 11 March 1944, Page 5
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