Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi-occupied country." (The Swiss paid $1,000,000 a day for full mobilization in the first year and a half of the war, remain partially mobilized today, with reserves ready on an hour's notice. If invaded, they are ready to destroy their great Alpine railroad tunnels as part of a scorched-earth plan...
British pilots learned the futility of attempting to ruin tunnels, destroy open railroad lines, bomb out freight yards, which can be repaired within a few hours. Knocking out bridges proved difficult (Cologne's Südbrücke, hit repeatedly, is still in service). But locomotives are R.A.F. meat. As targets they offer an additional advantage-they must always be brought within range. To supply their Channel defenses, for instance, the Germans have to bring locomotives up to the coast within convenient reach of British fighter planes...
True to his (and the Army's) favorite doctrine, Patton's order laid out for every soldier the nature of his mission. It also warned that considerate treatment must be given the French-"It is regrettable that we must destroy all of these gallant foes who oppose us and who at heart are sympathetic to us, but such is the stern necessity of war." It concluded...
...lamp may be the four-watt, 24-28-volt black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation. The illumination, unlike that of an ordinary dim light, is confined to the reading surface, will light a 36-sq-in. map or photograph inside the envelope, but cannot be seen by an attacking plane...
...appeal to rationality should suffice to make such primitive methods unnecessary. It is the age-old case of people agreeing to certain restrictions for mutual convenience; a selfish and unenlightened fraction of this group can destroy this convenience for the whole community...