Word: guns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first comes the barbed wire; then huge anti-tank teeth and a "carpet" of mines; then the self-sufficient machine-gun and anti-tank gun emplacements, some firing by remote control. Saar-brikken lies within this defensive zone, six to 18 miles deep packed with hidden anti-aircraft gun pits. Then come the bunkers and major fortifications. The average over-all depth of the Siegfried Position is 30 miles and it embraces 22,000 separate fortified positions (see cuts...
...Kennedy's report said: "No witness heard a shell in the air; no witness heard a shell strike the ship ... no splash of the projectile was seen." But (according to one quartermaster): "The submarine conning tower [unmarked] broke surface about 800 yards on the port quarter. ... A gun or explosive signal was fired. . . . The smoke from this discharge blew down over the Athenia and a distinct smell of cordite was recognized...
Before German pursuit could get into the air the raiders had crawled back into the overcast and headed for home, after a lively half hour or so with every machine gun and anti-aircraft cannon in the area whanging away at them. Next day Britain announced that severe damage had been done to a battleship lying alongside the mole at Brunsbüttel, that hits had been made on a second man-of-war off Wilhelmshaven. Few days later an unconfirmed dispatch from Switzerland said the 26,000-ton Gneisenau had been sunk. Germany denied it, said its anti-aircraft...
...ground and men in the air will work together in the tactical teams that both sides have trained to develop. While artillery is preparing for the advance of infantry, low-flying attack ships will sweep from their airdromes in great flights to batter relieving troops with machine-gun fire, bomb supply trains in the rear areas...
Into the main station of Geneva, Switzerland one night in February 1939 crawled a train of 22 freight cars. Atop every second car sat a machine-gun crew, and as the train stopped, three French soldiers with fixed bayonets jumped from each car. The art treasures of Spain, snatched from Madrid's gun-gutted Prado and many another lesser museum, vandalized churches and bombed palaces, had reached safety in Switzerland. In the cars were 1,842 big packing cases, containing 266 masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, Titian, Rubens, scores of other paintings, priceless collections of gold and silver...