Word: overshoots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traveled through its rarefied atmosphere to a height of 24 miles before starting down. The earth's rotation had to be calculated in elevating (for range) and laying (for deflection) Big Bertha, for as the earth turned Paris toward the shells she lofted, it tended to make Bertha overshoot. At best her aim could not be relied on within a target area smaller than two miles long by three-quarters of a mile wide, and even the weather made a big difference. Nowadays, greater accuracy is attained over greater distances by airplanes carrying far greater projectiles and carrying them...