Word: antiaircraft
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...moreover, he saw his hopes for a united Arab "eastern command" dashed. Two weeks ago, when Israeli Mirage jets raided Arab commando camps in Syria and, ac cording to Tel Aviv, shot down two ob solescent MIG-17s, Assad suffered fur ther humiliation. Civilian leaders criticized his forces' antiaircraft skills...
...Lebanon's armed forces were curiously slow to react. Lebanese air-force jets were based only 40 miles away, but none scrambled to challenge the Israeli choppers. Some Lebanese soldiers did advance toward the Israeli roadblock, but retreated when the commandos fired warning shots. A mobile Lebanese antiaircraft battery finally trundled up an hour after the attack began-and 15 minutes after the Israelis departed...
...Washington, D.C., listed two antitank guns. Miami officials registered a pistol made from a brier pipe. Boston discovered a 3.5-in. rocket launcher. Honolulu agents collected seven Chinese machine guns from G.I.s who were returning from Viet Nam. An Idaho farmer registered a fully assembled 90-mm. antiaircraft gun that he employs in a potato field as a "very effective" scarecrow. A Des Moines resident had to register his driveway markers-two live 500-lb. bombs...
...World War II, he became something of a legend-and today he is the last of that era's heroes still seeking to command. In England, LeMay concluded that too many of his B-17s were missing targets because they zigzagged away from antiaircraft fire. He led the next raid over Saint-Nazaire, directing his planes in a straight-line block formation through the flak. Next day he ordered his planes to take no more evasive actions on their final bombing runs. Losses went up, but so did the proficiency of his bombers. LeMay took similar risks...
Seven British soldiers in postwar occupied Germany are assigned to guard the obsolete, World War II Bofors antiaircraft cannon. Their mission is obviously a useless exercise but the soldiers nonetheless mount their guard in a battered barracks, awaiting the dawn. Thus unwinds a tightly spun military yarn that has a touch of allegory. Shrouded in canvas, the Bofors gun is never seen in its entirety; though it orders their lives, it remains irrelevant to the soldiers, who blandly carry on their battle with boredom. So painstakingly does The Bofors Gun record the brutalizing effects of military routine that...