Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's case was simple but grave: the U.S. was entrusting its defense to a "fallacious concept"-the atomic blitz, and an inadequate weapon-the Air Force's six-engined B-36 bomber. Said Radford: "The B-36 has become, in the minds of the American people, a symbol of a theory of warfare-the atomic blitz-which promises them a cheap and easy victory if war should come...
Then Radford moved in to attack the whole theory of "atomic annihilation." Even if it could bring victory, which he doubted, "a war of annihilation would be politically and economically senseless . . . [and] morally reprehensible." Said Radford: "This basic difference of military opinion concerning the bombing blitz has been at the root of our principal troubles in unification...
...What Atomic Blitz?" All of this made the Navy's bitterness understandable without making right what its bitter men said. Even so staunch a friend of the Navy as the New York Times's Annapolis-trained Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote that he himself did not consider the cutbacks in the Navy program disastrous. Baldwin added drily that "Some of the Navy's interest in morality as applied to strategic bombing seems new-found...
Lamar's men made a few belated passes, but three of these were intercepted; Jerry Blitz was the bright spot with several long runs. Other standouts were John Ederer, Bob Stargle, Pete Dillingham, and John Nichols...
...starting lineup: Rank Toepka, le; Bob Stargle, it; John Wober, lg; Buddy Lemay, c; John Nichols, rg; Dick Heidtman, rt; Stan Britton, re; Gill O'Neill, gb; Hardy Cox, lh; Pete Dillingham, rh; Jerry Blitz...