Word: cannoneer
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...fighting front, there was less German dive-bombing, due (the Allies thought) to a thinning out of the Stuka squadrons by machine-gun and massed rifle fire from Allied infantry. French pilots, meantime, discovered that their moteur cannon was a good weapon to puncture German tank turrets...
...through rugged country to cut Soult off. When Napoleon followed him, with his main Army, Sir John raced for the sea at Corufia. His Spanish allies failed him. French cavalry overtook him and, when his transports were two days late, so did Soult (with 20,000 men and 40 cannon to Sir John's 15,000 men, nine cannon). A cannon ball got brave, reckless Sir John, but not before he had repulsed the French, embarked most of his men safely...
...Overture. Depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, it ends with a mixture of the Marseillaise, the Imperial Russian anthem and - so reads the score - a terrific salvo of artillery fire. Although most orchestras dub in cymbals and timpani, the 1812 has sometimes been performed with real cannon. Last week in Philadelphia, Conductor Eugene Ormandy's decision to blitz the 1812 gave the Philadelphia Orchestra a cute little publicity story...
...Ormandy announced that, for the opening of the orchestra's summer season at Robin Hood Dell in Fairmount Park, the Pennsylvania National Guard had agreed to supply three 37-mm. anti-tank guns. The local musicians' union demanded that, since cannon are included in Tschaikowsky's score, a union man be hired to shoot them. Very well, replied the Dell management. But the orchestra wished to select a performer "who can play the cannon with due regard to its musical value." So there would be an audition for percussion men who wanted the job of "Symphony Bombardier...
...Dayton, Ohio. Best guess as to the price: something less than $500,000, plus royalties. Named to head G. M.'s new Aeroproducts Division was Engineering Projects' president, 40-year-old Werner J. Blanchard. He has designed a constant-speed propeller with hollow hub for light cannon, now has under Army test a prop of new design with eight blades, four turning in each direction. If business warrants, G. M.'s research laboratory in Dayton will be expanded into a $5,000,000 factory...