Word: precisionism
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Area Plus Precision. In those ten days, the heart was burned out of four cities, among the six largest in Japan.* B-29 commanders insisted that this was not "area bombing" of the sort practiced by the British in Europe, but rather "precision-area bombing," with the target area outlines...
For Greece, No Apologies. "I have never been connected with any large enterprise of policy about which I was more sure in mind and conscience of the rectitude of our motives, of the clarity of our principles, and of the vigor, precision and success of our action, than what we...
*The precision-trained ballet of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall.
The night of Dec. 1.5 Rundstedt's guns began to hammer with deadly precision at the U.S. positions on the Belgium-Luxembourg front. His attack was swift and sure. Spearheaded by the 1st SS Panzer-the Adolf Hitler Division-his point rammed two U.S. divisions on the northern flank...
China-based B295 did their best job of precision bombing on an aircraft factory at Okayama, Formosa. Lanky, blond Brigadier General Lauris Norstad, Twentieth Air Force Chief of Staff, judged this job better than any he had seen in Europe: 35 or 36 buildings that comprised this factory "just aren...