Word: robots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the cloud of censorship, the reassurances of British officialdom, the casual gibes of high hearted correspondents and the absurdity of German propaganda claims, the robot bomb attack on southern England showed plain signs that it might grow from a major nuisance into a minor menace...
...Fighters. Meanwhile the ordinary missiles made trouble enough. A new type, with swept-back wings, began coming over at 390 m.p.h., which was 40 m.p.h. faster than the square-winged model and painfully close to the top speeds of the fastest fighters. One fighter had to chase his robot for 20 miles before he knocked it down...
...bombing, the Allies did their best to knock down the robot-launching platforms around Calais. When the invasion troops closing on Cherbourg captured two platforms almost intact, British experts moved in at once to study them. However, the platforms were heavily camouflaged, often tucked away in the corners of woods. Others may have been dug into cliffs in bombproof positions...
Military experts observed that the robot might be regarded as a parallel to the famed Pariser Kanone of World War I, which shelled Paris at extreme range (76 miles) and disconcerted many people without affecting the outcome of the struggle in the slightest. An elderly Englishman in a shelter ticked the robot off more tersely...
...Lord Rosebery's Ocean Swell, a three-year-old, 28-to-1 shot; the 165th running of the English Derby, held in spite of the invasion and enemy "robot bombers," over the grassy, up-&-down Suffolk Stakes course at Newmarket. The crowd of 10,000 was less than one-fortieth the size of the last peacetime meeting...