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Word: 120s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemy has large numbers of big, radar-directed AA. guns, 88-or 85-mm. (and possibly a few long-range 120s or 155s; U.S. Sabre jets have occasionally reported flak bursts above 30,000 ft.). He also has an even larger quantity of smaller guns, 37-and 20-mm. cannon and 12.7-mm. heavy machine guns. And he has radar-directed searchlights, which can hold a night-flying U.N. plane transfixed. The U.N. is using newfangled electronic jamming against the enemy radar on the big guns, but the fact is that most U.N. planes lost to ground fire are downed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Deadly Flak | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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