Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army & Navy last week revealed another military secret: body armor-the first to be widely worn by foot soldiers since the Middle Ages-saved the life of many a World War II marine, soldier and sailor. Made of thin sheets of glass fiber cloth impregnated and bonded with resin, the new plastic armor proved tougher, pound for pound, than steel. Though not proof against a direct bullet hit, it was effective against shrapnel, especially useful in amphibious invasions...
...Literary Guild snapped up James Hilton's So Well Remembered (Little, Brown; $2.50)-catching it on the fly to Hollywood, where such earlier creations as Lost Horizon have fattened Author-Scripter Hilton's purse, made his characters familiar to millions. Other famed Hilton pictures: Knight Without Armor; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest (see cut). British Author Hilton and Chinese Author Lau Shaw proved brothers under the skin. Both proffered an amiable, spotless husband married to a woman more harpy than human. Each seemed to feel his harpy-heroine typified the evil forces against which the modern, democratic civilized...
Some fissures were at last appearing in the armor of Bushido-the stern warrior code. By Western standards, the rate of surrender was still low indeed, but Japanese prisoners, once a rarity in the Pacific, were coming in as never before. Psychological warfare units worked hard to encourage more...
Captain Julius D. Dusenberry's company left all armor and supply vehicles behind, shed most of its personal equipment and set out through the muck. Ascending a narrow ravine they labored 2,000 yards to the shattered walls of the castle, sliding and cursing. Only a few snipers were left to oppose them, and the marines drove into the vital heart of the Japanese Shuri line. Said Major General Pedro A. del Valle, 1st Marine Division commander: "The most astonishing thing is how the hell they got there...
Along Britain's beaches one war was still on. Crouching behind armor-plate, special troops cautiously worked electrical detectors, ejector pumps, high-pressure hoses and bulldozers through the sands, hunting for buried mines. Many of these minefields had been planted by the British in hot haste, when invasion was still a day-to-day threat. Since then some location charts have been lost, some of the officers in charge have died on other missions, mines themselves have moved or been buried deep in shifting sand beds. Ninety-six officers and men have died and 26 have been wounded digging...