Word: armament
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...with which the U.S. started the war, will be cut back, terminated by year's end. The P-61 Black Widow will keep its job as a night fighter. Bell's P-63 Kingcobra, which has a 37-mm. cannon among its armament, will be made principally for shipment to Russia...
...identity; five state police cars arrived to help. Private automobiles full of vigilantes armed with shotguns rolled slowly along the streets at night. Other citizens were taking pistols and shotguns to bed, and sleeping behind closed windows. Mattoon's police commissioner, as alarmed by this display of armament as by the depredations of the Anesthetist, pleaded with the vigilantes to disband...
With the deterioration of Japanese air and naval power, the CVEs-Casablancas, Bogues and Sangamons-began to assume a new role. In spite of their slowness, thin skin, light armament, they were thrown into front-line jobs...
...bombers. The lead bombers went over so fast and so high that the Japs could hardly get a pass at them. One fighter rammed a bomber it had been following, and both fell to destruction. But most Nip fighters cagily stayed beyond range of the B-29s' heavy armament until they could pick on a plane damaged by flak...
...that would bring us around midnight over Japan's biggest iron and steel works, on Kyushu Island. The senior gunner, Sergeant Allen, asked the pilot for permission to blow the guns: there was a chattering rattle all round us as Allen and his mates tested their powerful armament...