Word: flak
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...London the war's greatest concentration of flak guns destroyed some bombs, added to the nerve-racking din compounded by sirens, bells and other warning devices. The bombs continued to deliver death in wholesale lots: twelve in one row of shops, five in a row of dwellings. One bomb barely missed a U.S. Army headquarters, slightly wounded four WACs...
...field soldier, General "Ike" slept in a tent with a cot and bedroll. Most of the time he was in danger areas; twice German barrages fell in districts he had just left. Once a flak tower from which he had been observing U.S. artillery fire took hits from 88-mm. guns just after he had climbed down...
...which tips the robot into a 60-degree dive. Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical. Since his jet-propelled bomb is dependent on air, it cannot soar above the stratosphere like a rocket hut must remain within range of enemy flak and planes...
...watched from the bridge of a transport, one Hellcat, strafing from 700 feet, caught a burst of flak. The plane burst into flame and plummeted into the water. The fire was extin uished as quickly as"'the life of the pilot...
...London Home Secretary Herbert S. Morrison told the House of Commons that countermeasures were being taken against the robots and that no exaggerated importance would be attached to them. Visible countermeasures: 1) a heavy flak barrage to explode the bombs in air; 2) more heavy and concentrated bombing against the Pas-de-Calais district; 3) Spitfire patrols which shoot many of Goebbels' gismos into the Channel...