Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cyclotron Laboratory building will be located behind the Gordon MeKay Engineering Laboratory and will house the University's now cyclotron. The former cyclotron was used extensively during the war, both here and at the army's Los Almos, New Mexico, atomic bomb project. It has been given to the Army...
After entering College in the fall of 1940, Fenn left for service in the Army in March, 1943. He served as an enlisted man with the 461st Bomb Group in Italy, and later received a direct warrant as WOJG in the Mediterranean Theater. Discharged last summer, he returned to College at the beginning of the 1945 fall term, completing his degree requirements in June...
...were 118 newsmen aboard the press ship Appalachian at Bikini, and the competition was keen. Some of the boys, anxious to get their stories moving ahead of their rivals, wrote "eye-witnessers" in advance. One even faked an "interview" with Bombardier Harold H. Wood, the man who dropped the bomb. ("It was like dropping a cherry on a frosted cake.") And to make it authentic, the reporter added a personal detail: "I was thrown against a bulkhead and my typewriter knocked off the table by the jarring blast...
...When the bomb actually did fall, the reporter hustled off to make sure that his first story had not been sent. The A-bomb blast had not even been felt aboard ship...
...first time he played it; the second time, when his score was better, he called it the greatest course in the world. St. Andrews golf course, perhaps the world's toughest, curls like a giant fishhook along the east Scottish coast, its fairways pocked by traps deep as bomb craters. Roads and railroads run in & around it, and on the famed 17th hole the players have to drive over an enormous coal shed. Last week, in the British Open golf championship, the local boys, who knew the course, the wind and the weather, had a lot in their favor...