Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wood-and-metal airplane launched from a conventional bomber. Carried to about 15,000 feet by the mother plane, the baka would be cast loose by its pilot to ride on the 40-second "whoosh" from three powerful rockets. Since the nose was simply a ton of TNT, the "Kamikaze" suicide pilot had only to aim himself at his objective, then prepare to meet his ancestors. There was no landing gear; the pilot was doomed from the moment he stepped into the cockpit...
...neck, a soldier in the hand and nicked the brow of the task force's dashing commander, Colonel Robert H. Soule. Then, while the soldiers covered all ports, the LCM pumped 1,800 gallons of gasoline and oil into the vents; engineers packed 85 pounds of TNT in one leaky vent, 600 pounds in another...
...watched the billows of smoke and the swords of flame leap from the Volunteer, knew-some of them could even remember-what Halifax had missed. In December 1917 another munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, had caught fire in their harbor. In one monstrous moment, 4,000 tons of TNT exploded...
Shell-loading by hand is a slow, delicate process in which molten TNT is poured, cooled, hardened, and packed into shells a little at a time to prevent formation of air cavities that may cause premature explosion. Even after such care, many finished shells contain small cavities, must be melted out and repoured...
...operation, the "cow" cools just the right amount of TNT to just the right temperature, then pours it through nozzles into 24 shells mounted on a carriage. After further cooling, the shells are probed by the steam-heated "bayonets," all the way down to the bottom, where cavities usually form. Then the "cow" fills in the space that remains...