Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best present metal alloys and fuel, says Ley, a rocket ship designed for a round trip to the moon would have to be one-third the height of the Empire State Building-apparently a practical impossibility. But war research has improved fuels and alloys, produced new high-flying antiaircraft rockets. Ley, anticipating further improvements, is sure that "the rocket to the moon is possible." With the impregnable calm common to astronauts, he observes: "The idea of space travel has by now reached a rather high state of perfection...
Last Stand. As troops pushed ahead into the city, German detachments fell back in desperate street fighting. Some of the small harbor fortifications leveled their antiaircraft guns to fire at the incoming Americans. In a few hours the German resistance had been cut into pockets, no longer under centralized control. Just before his wireless blacked out,-the Nazi commander in Cherbourg thanked his Leader: "Final struggle for Cherbourg raging. General fighting with troops. Long live the Fuhrer and Germany...
...first D-day air strike began at,7 o'clock as dozens of dive bombers, torpedo bombers and, fighters tossed in the air over Saipan. There was still fairly intense antiaircraft fire, although the previous two days' strikes had completely eliminated all Jap air resistance...
Close-mouthed U.S. communiques said the bombing had been "accurate and effective." Antiaircraft fire over the target was "moderate to intense." There was "some resistance" from enemy fighters. The number of planes in the attack was left blank; a communique said only a "sizable task force of B-29s." The cost of the attack was four aircraft: one knocked down by enemy flak over the target; one missing; two lost by accidents...
...Quarters for five officers and 48 men, plus space for 50 passengers (e.g., tank crewmen), besides stowage space and lockers are all in narrow hives in her high sides. In between is her big open well, where she will carry tanks and trucks. For protection she mounts 20-mm. antiaircraft guns...