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Pilots in New Guinea said that the new plane was about the same size as the old Zeros (about 38-39 ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long); was powered by an in-line V-type engine (the various Zeros have radial, air-cooled engines); had armor; carried one 7.7-mm. machine gun in each wing and two 12.7-mm. machine guns in the nose. In armament, the Japs had evidently borrowed some ideas from the Americans' destructive .50-caliber machine guns, to which the 12.7 roughly corresponds. New Guinea flyers said that the newcomer could outdive...
...dusk two battalions with their artillery had been completely cut off, and another was in danger. One battalion, sadly thinned, was pulled back from the hills by the Sele. All were grouped in close defensive rings. The 105-mm. guns were turned around, faced the way the regiment had marched the night before. Only 15 rounds remained for each gun, and they were silent...
Seaman Allen L. Gordon went on the operating table in a South Pacific base hospital with one extra worry: he knew he might blow up. While on duty aboard a battleship he had been struck by a 20-mm. anti-aircraft shell which slashed into his belly, lodged in his left hip, freakishly did not explode...
...Play. In a little vineyard hidden from German eyes across the Messina Strait, a U.S. battery commander, Lieut. William B. Dougherty, brought up "Draftee," one of the 155-mm. rifles that the Allies have dubbed "Long Tom" and the Germans "Whispering Death." A truck hauled the heavy gun into position. The crew wrote their names on the first shell. A red-haired Tennessee private was about to yank the lanyard when the colonel came up and said: "Do you mind, son?" The private answered: "That's all right, sir." The colonel yanked. Seconds later the shell crashed into...
...strafing, not bombing. Bomb hits had scarcely affected the Allis-Chalmers tractor which sat on the concrete floor of the hangar. Not one of the 6-in. coast artillery guns had been hit by bombs, though they had been prime targets for months. Only one dual-purpose 70-mm. anti-aircraft gun was blown up and there is some question about what did it. The sooner we acknowledge the relative ineffectiveness of precision bombing on small, well dug-in, expertly camouflaged positions, the better off we will...