Word: layering
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...strength, depth and impregnability of the Nazi's coast defenses. With all of these noises the Germans were cooking propaganda. But R.A.F. reconnaissance, R.A.F. losses over northern France and underground reports from Occupied Europe all attest to strong German armies waiting in western Europe, a 25-mile layer of heavy guns, pillboxes and concrete fortresses along the Channel coast, air and armored forces waiting at central points to rush to any invasion sector. Germany's "Commander in the West," tough, wrinkled Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, unquestionably had real and formidable defenses to inspect when he toured them...
...Army was inducting 300,000 men a month. The fat layer of good U.S. manpower was melting fast. A 'teenage draft would cushion the oldsters against military service for a time at least...
...smelters who hold no priorities, almost any kind of steel scrap is worth almost any price. No. 1 bootleg method is to "upgrade" a load of low-grade scrap with a thin top layer of good scrap, sell the whole thing at the top limit for good stuff, exchange winks with the buyer...
...various calibers of Dutch, U.S., British, Swedish, German and Italian rifles, pistols and machine guns, the Dutch ordnance men had made much out of little. They juggled rifle parts to fit their ammunition supply. For armored cars, they walled trucks with double sheets of boiler plate. The first layer took the zing out of armor-piercing bullets, the second stopped them. The improvised cars with their mounted machine guns roared over the narrow, metalized Java highways, barking at advance parties of Jap bicyclists and rushing defenders to threatened points...
...battleship, one target training ship, one mine layer and three destroyers...