Word: snipering
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...sniper, looking through a fat telescope ("sniperscope") mounted on his carbine, saw a bright green picture of everything in front of him. The gadget flooded his field of fire with invisible infra-red light. Jap uniforms showed up clearer than in daytime. Any attempt at camouflage was a dead giveaway...
...electrons are concentrated on a second screen, at the rear end of the tube, forming an "electron image." This-screen is covered with a substance which glows green when hit by electrons. So a visible copy of the invisible infra-red image appears on it. When the sniper looks at the glowing image through a proper lens system, he sees in visible light the target which his sniperscope is watching in infrared...
They fled-Nano, Romana, the sister and the brother-to the lowlands of Shantol, then to the tiny village of Malabo. The Japs were always close behind; sometimes Romana crawled along the ground under sniper fire to beg or steal food. She burned out the serial numbers stamped on Nano's army pants, finally got him a forged birth certificate which enabled him to pose as a Spanish farmer who had come to the Philippines before the war. After that life was easier; they could go back to Manila...
Maybe you'll remember that we started to print TIME in Manila almost the same day General MacArthur marched in (a Jap sniper was still banging away only fifty yards from the bindery). And soon now we will be turning out twenty times as many copies as we could print that first...
...Miss. On Okinawa, a Jap sniper took careful aim, shot Private Kenneth W. Cunningham right through the heart-or where his heart should have been. Private Cunningham, whose heart is on the wrong side, survived...