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...wells' damaged "Christmas trees" (i.e., cluster of valves topping the well pipe) kept the flames close to the platform, making the area too hot to approach. Kinley borrowed a four-man Army team from Louisiana's Camp Polk, tried to shoot off the trees with 75-mm. recoilless rifles. The tree of one well was shot off. Kinley got Pure Oil's crews to weld together a 90-ft. boom of pipe tipped with a big loop and cooled by hundreds of gallons of water pumped through it. With it, he hooked off the tree...
...Reds mount their loudspeakers on trucks and bring them up within a mile or less of the battle line. When they broadcast music in an attempt to make American troops homesick, the U.S. artillerymen play a game called "Stop the Music"-sending over 105-mm. howitzer shells. In most cases, the G.I. gunners claim, they can stop the music with one round...
...that time, U.S. Patton tanks had surrounded the hill mass, pouring in flat-trajectory fire from 90-mm. guns. Planes of four allied air arms-U.S. Air Force and Marines, Australians, ROKs-softened Big and Little Nori with bombs, rockets and napalm that whooshed up in hideous, billowing, orange-and-black globes. The U.N. artillery put in VT (variable-time-fused) shells for airbursts which the gunners hoped would send sharp fragments flying into the enemy ratholes. One clear morning, after Thunder jets and artillery had given the hill a final treatment, the ROKs attacked again, in single...
...Barlow, wartime head of the R.A.F.'s radio research station at Farnborough, is now considered Britain's leading authority on microwaves. He has found that waves 8.6 mm. long (40,000 megacycles) can be forced to travel long distances, with very little loss, through the kind of copper pipe that plumbers...
...Barlow's system, the 8.6 mm. waves will stick to the inside of the pipe. On the outside surface travel somewhat longer waves (10,000 megacycles). If properly started on their journeys, the two sets of waves will not bother one another. The metal of the pipe can carry electric power, and neither the inside nor outside waves will interfere with...