Actually, the 175 gun was quite a weapon, a ultra high velocity cannon designed to fit the same carrage as the 8" self-propelled howitizer. If they fired over your hooch in the compound, the blast effect would bounce you right off your cot, as the dirt dropped all over you from the sand-bagged roof. Ah, those were the days! I think most-all of the cannon cockers destroyed their hearing too, we had little earplugs to wear but you couldn't wear them 24 hours a day. Yeah, there were some intresting decorations on the jackets and helmets too! Happiest day of my life was the day I got out!