Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much public breath and some official energy was wasted on a dispute between R.A.F. night mass bombing v. U.S. daylight precision bombing. Gradually both the public and the two services realized that one method complemented the other. And the list of flaming cities grew; the R.A.F. in 1942 dropped 37...
No Respite. Germany was really feeling the weight of Allied air power. By day, the big Fortresses and Liberators of the U.S. Eighth Air Force came over to bomb key bases and war plants in northwestern Germany, the Lowlands and France. With each raid the precision bombing of the Americans...
" 'Newspapers? When we have been dead a hundred years, my honorable friend, then it will be decided with the greatest of precision what we are. . . . Prepare an order expunging from regimental conversation such uncouth expressions as "Germans leaked through," "We are surrounded," "heroic Sevastopol," "drunken enemy" and other such...
He lives a methodical if jittery life, alternating between a suite in a midtown Manhattan hotel and rented villas in Hollywood. He has a high giggle, a flamboyant taste for red ties and pink-striped shirts. Horowitz' great absorption outside music is his magnificent collection of snuffboxes assembled from...
The suggestion that this be built was made by Colonel Francis A. Doniat, who was impressed by a like model that men of the former 301st and 388th Field Artillery had built in Boston. Colonel Doniat saw its use in teaching his students firing precision.