Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Moore, 62, commander of Corregidor when it fell to the Japanese in 1942; by his own hand (his suicide note said that he feared insanity); on a mountain path near Burlingame, Calif. A crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10%) average of antiaircraft destruction on Corregidor. With General Wainwright, theater commander, he surrendered the island to the Japanese and set out on the Bataan Death March to spend three years in Japanese prisons. After the war, he was Army commander in the Pacific, retired eight months ago after 40 years' service...
Bush visualizes nests of robot weapons guarding strategic centers. Ramjet missiles would be loosed against the highest-flying, swiftest planes, which "could neither see them nor dodge them; they come too fast." The missiles carry proximity fuzes which, during the war, "multiplied the effectiveness of large antiaircraft batteries by five or ten." The fuze, which commands the scientist's awe as "a devilish device," may yet, he thinks, "bring a feeling of relative security to the world...
...combat and that he had no for its top officers. It looked as if MacArthur was right. The next day at noon, Kenney looking on, 27 Jap planes attacked a U.S. airdrome near Port Mores New Guinea. The Japs got away without being touched by U.S. fighters. Even the antiaircraft shooting was wretchedly ineffective . 150 to 0. General Kenney Reports is Kenney's brash, galloping and long-winded explanation of how he all that. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), bristle-haired and scar-cheeked, Kenney ruthlessly rid himself of incompetent brass, re-trained his flyers and lifted them from...
...share of planes would go to Britain, including every type from trainers to 6-173 and 6-298. Benelux countries would get the same sort of equipment as France, but less of it. Norway, closest to Russia, would get radar equipment and some army supplies. Denmark would be given antiaircraft guns and radar for the defense of her air bases. Italy, her armament limited by treaty, would get little more than rifles. Most MAP countries needed (and would get) minelayers, minesweepers and harbor-defense equipment...
...Thanksgiving? U.S. excess stocks were plentiful, if badly out of balance. The U.S. had plenty of antiaircraft guns (many of them without fire-control equipment or prime movers). It had thousands of 81-mm. mortars, a good many excess tanks (needing guns and radios before shipment), 155-mm. howitzers, scout cars, machine guns and military radios. In all, some $450 million worth of excess materiel was scheduled for Western Europe's armies. Only the cost of rehabilitation-estimated at $77 million-would be charged...