Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He installed a rigid daily training schedule for his crews, taught them to fly and fight a really "hot" aircraft. By midsummer the Marauders tackled the broad assignment of pounding the Luftwaffe's northwestern French airfields. By October Anderson could report that the enemy squadrons had been pushed inland...
One shift that surprised London military men will send Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, down to the Mediterranean to lead all Allied air operations in that theater, and bring Major General James H. Doolittle up as chief of the Eighth. Eaker, a crack...
- U.S. precision bombers recently turned from their usual runs, attacked a hush-hush plant at Rjukan, Norway, where German chemists were supposed to be fashioning a new superexplosive.
Sixteen times his precision passes bored to their marks. Twice he made spectacular quick kicks, one for 67 yards. Twice he intercepted passes, running one 38 yards to set up the third touchdown. Final result of Sammy Baugh's one-man field day at Manhattan's Polo Grounds...
By means of well-established formulas, for example, an individual's face can be reconstructed accurately from his skull, his height calculated with 99% precision from certain single bones (e.g., a man's height is usually 1.88 times the length of his thigh bone plus 813.06 mm.). A...