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...shooting, once he took up mortars. On Guadal he boasted he could lob a shell down a chimney, and did. When a Jap cruiser closed in to shore, Lou lobbed a few shells at it (like firing bee-bees at a bomber), explained, "I wanted to check my azimuth and it's just right." Many a mortar crew in the Solomons was Diamond-polished...
...Administration are unemployed bookkeepers, engineers, accountants. Last week from Washington came word of a unique white-collar project in Philadelphia, which Mr. Hopkins described as of literally unestimable value to the world's aerial and ocean navigators. The project: a complete set of Tables of Computed Altitude and Azimuth...
Computations by which navigators determine their position from sextant observations of the altitude (elevation above the horizon) and azimuth (true bearing by compass) of heavenly bodies may take up to 15 minutes. In airplanes traveling 200 m.p.h. such computations are out of date by the time they are made. The Navy's Hydrographic Office published tables last year covering latitudes of 30 to 39 degrees, from which navigators could check their position in a few seconds...
Magnetic Declination, Azimuth. The squall struck the ship like a rock; she heeled over on her beam ends. "All hands to starboard!" bawled the officer on watch. It was too late. In 30 seconds the Niobe had capsized and sunk...
...these men who have tasted Military and Naval training in college are not best qualified to judge its value, then who is? Are the aesthetes who spend most of their time at poetry, music, and afternoon tea; who do not know a howitzer from a latrine, an azimuth from a pelorus; in any position to critize intelligently the benefit that others may derive from instruction in ballistics or celestial navigation? No, they are not! On the other hand, all members of the R.O.T.C. have worn enough mufti in the progress of their liberal educations to be able to assign "culture...