Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worse was to come. Fighter-bombers from Jap aircraft carriers spotted two heavy cruisers, the Dorsetshire and the Cornwall. Both ships had proud records in the Royal Navy; the Dorsetshire's torpedoes sank the Bismarck in 1941 (after she had been crippled by aerial attack). Under Jap bombs the cruisers went down. If they had air protection, neither British nor Japanese communiques mentioned...
Next to steam (which old wind jamming navy men welcomed like a mouse in the morning oatmeal) the biggest thing that has happened to fighting-ship design is the airplane. Before the epochal crippling of the Bismarck by aerial torpedo, and the crashing success of unsupported aircraft in sinking the Prince of Wales and Repulse, designers of battlewagons and smaller craft had given only half an eye to defense against the new weapon on the seas. Those demonstrations ended all arguments, basically altered ship design...
...blown a few tires, scraped a few wing tips. But they had had no serious crackups, had been smooth and unhurried in the air. Also they made instructors' eyes pop at the way they could shoot. Diving at a tiny towed target and slamming away with fixed aerial guns at a little patch of white on the ground, the top Chinese gunnery student plunked in 45 out of a possible 200. At the toughest kind of firing, where ten in 200 is considered workmanlike, he had given an expert's performance. U.S. fellow students heard of it with...
Geological Sciences, Geography and Geology, are already giving a number of military courses. Among them are Military Geology, 28b, which has nine students enrolled; Aeronautical Metrology, 10b; Aerophotography and Aerosurveying, 36b; Field Communication, 37; and a repetition of Aerial Mapping, 38a, presented originally in the first half-year. This department has also organized flexible half courses to accomplish the work previously done in a full year and is prepared to give divisionals at any time. All these geological courses are highly specialized and specifically attempt to train men in subjects useful during...
VICHY--A two-hour British aerial bombardment of 20 industrial suburbs encircling Paris has killed more than 650 persons, wounded 1,500 and destroyed more than 500 buildings, from whose smoking wreckage the groans of buried victims still emerge, it was announced tonight...