Word: pinpointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there been an Atlantic Wall? Countering boisterous dispatches that the highly advertised defenses were "the biggest bluff of the whole war," the London Times military correspondent rumbled: "This is to do less than justice to the Allied troops." Said Reuter's Stanley Burch: "You could not make a single pinpoint on the map of the invasion beachhead not covered by crossfire from machine guns, mortars or light artillery...
Precision Bombing. For Army airmen, biggest thing of the year was the final, definite proof of its bombing doctrines. Disregarding the skepticism of British airmen, Major General Ira Eaker of the Eighth Air Force (TIME, Aug. 30) had finally shown that his Fortresses and Liberators could consistently hit pinpoint targets from' altitudes above 20,000, thus be relatively safe from anti-aircraft defenses. His airmen had also shown that with their .50-caliber guns they were more than a match for German fighters. By bombing and gunnery they had become the biggest threat to Germany's vital fighter...
...regulated to explode directly above its target. Bursting at a height of 15 yards, a 105 time-fire shell sprays an area 40 yards wide and five yards deep with razor-sharp, saw-toothed shell fragments. No gun is completely accurate, but with massed time fire blanketing huge areas pinpoint accuracy is no longer a problem...
...machine guns. Occasionally cliffs had to be scaled, hand over hand with the help of thorny lawyer vines: the Jap, creeping from his caves, pulled the pins from mortar bombs, dropped them on the attackers. Such fighting necessarily slowed the Allied onslaught. Patrols probed ahead to pinpoint enemy positions. Plane and artillery bombardment constantly softened the Jap defenses. But direct assaults had to be made against limited objectives because of the tangle and sheerness of the country. Gradually, however, the Jap was being dislodged, pressed back to the defensible peninsula of Salamaua itself...
...been done before: 1) the logical time was when the rivers were in flood, the dams full, the dry season approaching; 2) big four-engined planes were needed, flown by experienced crews who had had weeks of specialized training and study of the target (bombing the dams was pinpoint work from the lowest altitude); 3) for maximum effect, flood disaster had to be carefully timed in the Allies' general bombing program. Experts considered that the best moment was when really heavy bombing had already disorganized Ruhr industry to a substantial extent, and when rescue and construction services were already...