Word: robots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's defense was triple-decked, but most of its details were under strong censorship lock. The system goes to work almost at the instant of the robot bomb's launching. The course of each missile is plotted, its flight checked...
...witch was tiny (95 lb.) Hanna Reitsch, famed glider and helicopter pilot (who was a U.S. National Air Races stunting favorite in 1938). The story: in 1942 V-1 had a tendency to shake off its wings. In a robot fitted with landing skids...
...bombers were trying to nip off V-2 as well as stop Vi. The targets were significant: the experimental stations at Peenemünde and Zinnowitz on the wooded Baltic coast (R.A.F. attacks there a year ago were officially credited with having delayed V-1 by six months); robot-parts plants at Friedrichshafen and Memmingen in southwest Germany; unnamed factories turning out special fuels for pilotless bombs; storage points in France and Germany for bombs and fuels. Part of the strategic pattern was a concentrated blasting of the Bayerische Motorenwerke (Munich), which makes robot propulsion engines. It was reported four...
London packed off more women & children (more than 182,000), heard renewed assurances that the robot bombs could not possibly affect the course of the war. The course of Londoners' lives was another matter. Home Security Minister Herbert Morrison had to admit what was deadly obvious: "We have not beaten...
...their faith. They have learned something of what they are up against and have turned their studies to practical engineering details. Some of the problems are clearly posed in a new book (Rockets; Viking; $3.50) by Willy Ley, onetime colleague of German Professor Hermann Oberth, reported inventor of the robot bomb (TIME, July...