Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With reference to small cameras of those days-we used, at the French gunnery school at Cazeaux a camera that resembled, in outward appearance, a Lewis machine gun. This "camera gun" was mounted parallel to axis of the airplane and was charged with a small film roll-like an ordinary Kodak. A fresh film was moved into position by pulling a lever. When in mock combat, the student tried to get his sights on his opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger-the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane...
...from transports for a permanent military invasion. The Black strength was to lie chiefly in the air. The Saratoga's and Lexington's bombers were assigned a "constructive" radius of 300 mi. beyond which they were supposed to be unable to return alive to their carrier. Besides gun power, the Blue defenders relied on their destroyers and submarines (of which the Blacks had none lest real underwater collisions occur) to spot the "enemy's" advance at any point along a 1,500-mi. coast line. About 39,000 officers & men, divided among 212 ships, 236 planes, were...
...Zeiss Works of Jena, to make Zeiss prism binoculars in the U. S., trading Bausch manufacturing for Zeiss research facilities. The deal held good until the War, when Bausch perforce perfected the U. S. manufacture of fine optical glass, made 3,500 binoculars a week (besides periscopes, range finders, gun sight telescopes, searchlight mirrors). War demands mechanized the manufacture of microscopes. Prices fell from over $1,000 for hand-worked ones to $100 and $200 for machine-made ones...
Syria was snatched from Turkey during the War, handed to France as a Mandate in 1922. Thereafter bloody work began for the French Foreign Legion. Years of pumping machine gun bullets into Syria's more savage tribes finally brought peace in 1927. Under French dominance, the so- called "Syrian Republic" was proclaimed and provided with a Constitution and a Sheik Premier. It was he, the potent Sheik Taj-ed-Din Effendi, who made Syria news last week...
...beside the corpse of a soldier and snivelling into his hat; hand-to-hand trench fighting in which, although the photography is somewhat blurred, it is possible to see a real bayonet go through a real soldier; a squad of U. S. infantry going over the top into machine gun fire; a zeppelin picked out by searchlights over England; a chaplain walking through an evacuated battleground, making rapid gestures over minced bodies. There are good sequences of Italian soldiers scampering wildly in retreat across a bridge under shell fire; prisoners lolling about and scratching themselves in a barbed wire paddock...