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This little aircraft is a captured Japanese suicide rocket bomb, fitted with a pilot's cockpit, steering controls and an explosive warhead in the nose. It may have been modeled after the pilotless German V-i robomb, which it resembles in size and destructive capacity. Japanese broadcasts have glorified it under the name Jinrai ("sudden peal of thunder"), but U.S. fighting men promptly tagged it with another Japanese term, baka ("stupid"). In operation, Stupid is carried near its target by a bomber, then cut loose. The pilot glides down and can fire three rockets in the tail to give...
...minds inside the bullet heads of the Wehrmacht officers hit the receptive mind of the U.S. captain with the impact of a robomb. German officers,* he found, were less flexible than U.S. military men. But they lived, breathed and dreamed war. They understood war as politics and peace as politics...
...ironies of war, the National Gallery passed through the frightful destruction of the blitz and robomb years with only one gallery (No. 26) damaged. Far harder hit were the British Museum, whose Greek and Roman rooms were destroyed by incendiaries in 1941, and the Tate Gallery, which will not reopen for six months...
...many political leaders who are afraid to admit it; there may be many people who do not understand it, but the extreme principle of absolute nationalistic sovereignty is of the Middle Ages and it is dead. It died with the airplane, the radio, the rocket and the robomb...
Last week the U.S. Army showed pictures of the U.S. version of V1, called "Yankee Doodle". Yankee Doodle is faster (400 to 440 m.p.h.) than the German robomb and reportedly more accurate. It is launched from a ramp by means of a rocket-propelled undercarriage on wheels, which is jettisoned after the takeoff. It is now in quantity production. But up to this week there had been no report of a Yankee Doodle fired at an enemy target...