Word: bombproofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missourians heard strange news from their sons and brothers in Alaska. There the Army camps are overrun with dogs -mongrels and curs of all descriptions -called "Bombproof" and "Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo of Prohibition. Bored G.I.s invented a new drink, dubbed it "Aleutian Solution." Contents: one part "torpedo juice" or medical alcohol, two parts grapefruit juice. CJ A Californian in the farthest South...
With two bamboo and plaster dormitories, classrooms in the bombproof Press Hostel, nine typewriters locally valued at $1,200 each, and 32 cub-reporting students, Chungking's new Graduate School of Journalism of the Central Political Institute got under way last week. The founder and director is polished, ingratiating, 56-year-old Dr. Hollington Tong, pressagent extraordinary to the Chiang Kai-shek regime and biographer of the Gissimo...
Final Offensive. The final offensive had begun five days previously, when encircling U.S. troops broke through Jap lines on the north and south. Flame throwers proved the answer to the Jap's bombproof, duplex bunkers. Soldiers advanced under Jap guns and sprayed fire from two sides into the gun openings and eyeslits, scorching the Japs out. Ingenious mechanics improved on the tactic by affixing flame throwers to the light marine tanks. These blowtorched the path into Munda. In the last days little Jap resistance remained. The cumulative effect of the tremendous bombing and shelling to which Munda had been...
...Japs, well knowing that loss of the commanding ridges above Salamaua would seal its doom, fought desperately. To counter the Allied guns they had a few 75-mm. and 6-in. guns, but for the most part relied on their bombproof burrows, mortars and machine guns...
...reported, could be partly explained by the fact of overwhelming U.S. air and naval superiority: ground commanders had expected the heavy bombings and shellings to pave the way for a nearly bloodless advance of the infantry. This expectation had not been realized, because the Japs had built so many bombproof bunkers, often cleverly using bomb craters as excavation for the log- and dirt-covered shelters. They could be licked only by extermination...