Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago John Hays Hammond Jr. perfected a system of radio control for ships, the first ever put into actual use. Directed by his devices, the battleship Iowa was used as a target during naval maneuvers off Panama in 1923. Recently the destroyer Stoddert was converted into a radio-controlled target, maneuvered off San Diego. The Navy intends similarly to equip the destroyers Kitty and Boggs...
...your brother service has viewed with sincere appreciation the difficulties experienced by the Army pilots in flying out of sight of land to discover and bomb the Mt. Shasta. . . . The Naval Aviation Service will be glad either to guide and convoy the Army bombers to and from the target or, if necessary, even undertake the entire mission of finding and destroying by bombs the old hulk...
Stung by this ridicule, Colonel Roy Kirtland, Langley Field commander, spurned the Navy's assistance. Said he: "The Army taught the Navy how to bomb ships. With any sort of visibility we can locate our target unaided...
Fine weather came three days later when nine Army bombers soared out over the Atlantic for another crack at the Mt. Shasta. Fifty bombs of 100 Ib. and 300 Ib. were dropped from 5,000 ft. around the target. Only two hits were scored which damaged the rusty freighter hardly at all. The Mt. Shasta still rode high on a calm sea. Two Coast Guard cutters thereupon went alongside, spent two hours firing one-pounders pointblank into her below the water line. At last she filled with water, sank in 150 fathoms. The Navy's mocking grin...
Contrary to legend, bowstrings give out a hard, flat sound, not a twang; arrows hiss rather than whistle in their flight. The loudest sound on an archery range is the thump of arrows when they reach the thick straw target. Into the gold bull's-eye of the 48-in. target at Canandaigua last week the arrows loosed by a lanky toxophilite from Coldwater, Mich., thumped most consistently. He, Russell Hoogerhyde, won the men's championship for the second time in succession, maintained a record of winning every tournament he has entered. His score...