Word: flak
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...months the Army and Curator Stephen Grancsay of the Museum's ancient arms and armor department have been experimenting on armor that will give maximum protection from flak and flying missiles, minimum interference with movement. Last week genial, 46-year-old Curator Grancsay thought he had found the answer. He hoped to prove to the Army that the type of steel coat worn by medieval knights is still the best...
...body armor developed for the Eighth Air Force (TIME, June 14) a new, lightweight protective helmet has been added. Like the flak suit, it is the invention of the Eighth's smart air surgeon, Brigadier General Malcolm Grow, for protection against low-velocity missiles: flak, spent bullets, metal torn loose by enemy gunnery...
Sometimes the most thoughtful planning cannot anticipate every need, or every quirk of war and weather. Then the improvisations of Yankee ingenuity write new legends of the A.S.C. in the field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done...
...Leipzig, fifth largest German city, newly industrialized with evacuated war plants and crowded with refugees from Berlin, the bombers poured more than 1,500 tons of explosive and fire. No night fighters met them; Leipzig had only searchlights and flak. Then, while bombs were falling on Leipzig, a large force of swift Mosquito bombers flashed in on Berlin...
Nights of Destruction. The human scene was much like London's. In the factories, the offices, the homes, the streets the people heard the Lancasters, Stirlings and Halifaxes, the first grumble of the flak barrage, and hurried to the shelters...