Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Glee Club under the direction of Harold Schmidt opened the concert with "Let Your Celestial Concerts All Unite" from the oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" by George Frederick Handel, rendered with the usual precision but without the usual roundness of tone. In the second number, "Gentle Johnny", and English folk song...
The Allies, in their campaign, are using the greatest air force the world has known: a combination of the daylight precision bombing planes of the U.S. Eighth Air Force and the heavy nighttime saturation raiders of the R.A.F. This combined force is fighting a new kind of aerial war. with...
In this air war the R.A.F. deals the smashing blows to the body, the U.S. Eighth Air Force the precision blow to the heart. The Stirlings, Halifaxes and Lancasters that carry bombs in British night raids saturate an entire target area, hitting at German production and German morale indiscriminately. In...
The Eighth. This campaign of combined operations-night & day bombing, saturation and precision raids-became possible with the organization in Britain of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. The Eighth's Bomber Command, its backbone and most potent unit, was born on a grey day in February 1942 when Brigadier...
"One of the most interesting features of occupying an enemy-held position is to check on the damage done to it. Our naval gunfire in Gertrude Cove had been effective beyond expectations. Many direct hits had been scored on buildings there. But I was disappointed at the apparent ineffectiveness of...