re: #36 Decatur Deb

My turn to be THAT GUY. That’s not a tank, that’s a 155mm self-propelled howitzer, much bigger than any tank gun.

the french discovered too late, to their horror, that the vietnamese were fully capable of taking something roughly that size and having 300 conscripted laborers pull it several hundred miles through the jungle until it arrived at dien bien phu. I’m actually read _Hell in a Very Small Place_ at the moment, and it is absolutely incredible what the Viet Minh accomplished. What’s even more incredible is that 10 years later, we decided to do it all over again.