Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Odds. As a precision instrument of war the robot is something to make soldiers weep. It probably cannot be "aimed" at any target smaller than a fair-sized city. The Germans themselves admitted that it could not be used on the Normandy battleground without endangering their own troops.
X-House as usual, for dinner and then for coffee in the big living room. There they talked shop, but this night there was no poker game. After months of building up U.S. strategic bombing power, after maddening delays and unavoidable diversions of equipment to other theaters of war, General...
Long Wait. At 11:30 p.m. Spaatz made his decision. Orders flashed out, at bases throughout Britain ground crews tumbled out of their bunks to ready the armada - 1,600 bombers and fighters. The attack was to mark the beginning of modern precision air war. In the paneled room at...
Lanky, sandy-haired Kenneth Daane, graduated from Michigan's Grand Haven High School, then supported his mother by grinding precision tools in Muskejon. After he enlisted in the Army he was sent to the University of Chicago. He got pneumonia, lost part of his left lung, then got bronchiectasis...
Their considered opinion: the German aircraft industry, scheduled to quadruple its fighter output of two years ago, could no longer even make up for combat losses. By this estimate the precision-bombing Eighth U.S. Air Force, assigned a year ago to the job of knocking out Nazi aircraft plants, had...