Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot hit its targets "Bombing at very high altitude can be effective only on targets of great area. Such targets, unless we are committed to the concept of mass area bombing of urban areas, rather than precise bombing of specific military targets, are very limited. . . The B-36 is a billion-dollar blunder...
What was the Navy's alternative? Said Radford: small, fast bombers which, escorted by fighters, could hit military targets with accuracy. It sounded remarkably like the formula for World War II carrier warfare. Certainly the Navy did not now have a bomber with the range, speed and armor of the B-36, which could drop the atomic bomb...
Later at a firing-range observation post he watched heavily burdened paratroopers -850 in all-come tumbling out of the sky. Tons of ammunition and equipment hit the ground as they assembled and opened fire. In the neatest trick of the day, four C-82s dropped four huge 105 mm. howitzers and four towing jeeps. All but one gun floated safely down under billowing, 100 ft. cargo chutes, and the cannon were firing within twelve minutes after delivery...
...next week, Harvard played Army. Since the Dartmouth Medley had met with great crowd approval, Anderson decided to present another. He took a tune from the George Gershwin hit musical "Of Thee I Sing", mixed in well-known melodies from Ivy League college songs, and produced "Wintergreen." It met with so much success that it has since become the closest thing to a theme song the band has in its repertoire...
Holt explained that the old system was too much hit or miss...