Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret of the kickless weapon: it lets some of the powder blast drive to the rear through the breech as the projectile is driven forward. Result: the rearward blast cancels out the "kick" of the gun. One of the weapon's drawbacks: the blast-a fiery column 12-to-15 ft. long, about 4 ft. in diameter-might betray its location to the enemy...
...sailor; the Navy still expected great things of him. On Sept. 15, on the deck of the Saratoga at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz said: "I've got a surprise for you, men. Admiral Halsey's back." Officers and enlisted men broke into cheers when Halsey stepped forward...
...aboard was lost; the forward bulkheads, bare to the buffeting seas, were shored up; the Pittsburgh fell behind the fleet...
Uncounted weeks in action had made Pfc. Devon Hunsaker a ragged, unshaven, mud-caked infantryman.Slogging wearily back from the lines north of Davao last week, dreaming of his home in Utah, he saw a vaguely familiar face in the column of replacements moving forward. "What's your outfit, buddy?" he asked. "Thirty-first Infantry," said the newcomer, and moved on. A quarter of a mile later, Private Hunsaker slapped his thigh and exclaimed: "I knew I had seen that guy before. He's my brother...
Worst sufferer was the heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, a 13,000-ton yearling. Her bow began to quiver under the buffeting of mountainous seas; the forward compartments were cleared of men, and just in time. A huge wave threw her 10° to 15° off her course; the next tore off 104 feet...