Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe's fringe, they launched an air and seaborne assault against tiny Cos and its excellent airfield. The Allies admitted the loss of several strongpoints on the island to the German counterattack. Field Marshal von Weichs was evidently determined to hold the outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania. On the Dalmatian coast, above Albania, "General Tito's" Partisans lost the port...
...Axis agents laid a trap for her on a South Atlantic crossing with 10,000 U.S. troops aboard. Submarines were waiting, spies in São Paulo, Brazil were prepared to flash word of her exact course when their secret radio station was discovered just in time. The Italian Government was so sure that the trap would work that Rome announced her sinking on the appointed...
...years ago Stargazers Porter & Ingalls marched into the Frankford Arsenal with an opportune proposal. The Army desperately needed workmen to make roof prisms for field and anti-aircraft guns and other military instruments. Porter & Ingalls said that amateur telescope-makers, who had years of experience in just such exact work, were eager to take a crack...
...inverts the image; the roof prism's function is to turn the image right side up. Roof prisms are thum-sized, polished crystals whose two top facets are shaped like a peaked roof. In manufacture, a piece of glass is first sawed roughly to shape, then ground to exact proportions by a delicate hand. In the final product, every facet must be absolutely flat; the right angle between the roof facets must be accurate within one 1,800th of a degree...
...novel has nothing to do with the war. The action occurs in the mid-1930s, though the exact period is obscure...