Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stone Wall. The invaders had not stood idle. But if the concept of their commanders, ranging down from Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson and Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, had called for a quick penetration of German rear areas from Nettuno, then they had failed...
...bomb which explodes on impact with a violence sufficient to penetrate four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat the 33-lb. Piat is handled by a two-man team, one to aim and fire, the other to haul ammunition and reload...
Killer at Work. When invasion comes, Darnand's job will be to keep order in the rear of the German defenders. In advance of invasion, his job is to quiet those Frenchmen who yearn too strongly for it. His personally appointed courts now have the power of life & death over any Frenchman they can catch. His thugs do not require even this veneer of legality...
...thought it would be announced before his strip appeared; 2) no other plane he knew of exactly fitted the needs of his continuity. Biggest fighter plane yet, the Black Widow is heavily armed, turns up speeds in the 400-m.p.h. class with two Pratt & Whitney engines, has a rear gun position...
...mere plants will not do it. The Army must convince U.S. workers that the tractor, while not as glamorous as a P-47, is even more essential in many areas. Sorest pressed is the South Pacific, where each island hop forward means not only virtual abandonment of rear bases, but a huge new construction job. In effect, the U.S. will cross the Pacific at the speed of a tractor...