Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straight for the death-laden steel-clad swerved the 14,164-ton armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay, a hardy old packet of the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line which used to take freight and poor emigrants from Britain out to Australia. She had just six 6-inch guns and no armor plate over her ribs. Her commander was an Irish admiral's middle-aged son named Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan. He had promised his men that if ever they met the enemy they would face him and close...
...Italian Army is regarded by military men the world over with emotion ranging from contempt to hilarity-almost nowhere with admiration. But this was the first real test. Ethiopia, a war against men whose only armor was the loin cloth, was no test. Neither was the Italian picnic in southern France. No one knows how enthusiastically the campaign in Egypt has been pursued. But this was war, and all the world was watching. Considering the terrain, the weather, and the vigor of the brave Hellenes, the Italians were doing all right...
...speed of the Kimberley. Because her silhouette is not unlike the Sydney's, mistaking the Kimberley for a cruiser might be understandable. But the Italians' gloss-over of their loss of another destroyer was something else. It was further evidence that the Italian Navy, in which armor and striking power are sacrificed for speed, is good only for swift hit-&-run attacks, not for a stand-up fight with the tough...
When France crumbled, amateur tacticians who had been doping the war by counting airplanes, calipering tank armor and timing inundations awoke with a nasty start to the realization that morale is more than a mere word in patriotic orations, that morale is often the simple and terrible difference between victory and defeat. They remembered that lesson as they breathlessly watched bombed Britain, weighed its morale, found it good...
...need not tell you gentlemen that the powder question was awfully late in getting started. . . ." Last week Army men murmured that Franklin Roosevelt caused some of the delay by holding up contracts for new munitions plants. The Navy meantime allotted $96,000,000 to 15 ship and naval armor makers, to expand their production facilities...