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In the book "An Awesome Silence" written by Padre Eldon Davis, who was with 3rd Fd Regt RCA in Italy; tells of how the gun crews took a short cut by trowing the shell hard into the breech so that there was no need to ran it home. However, once the loader missed and hit the breech with the shell. The safety failed and the shell exploded, killing all of the crew.
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