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...desired; and last week's communiques on the reconnaissance reports may very well have duplicated each other. But it was clear that the commander of Japan's Combined Fleet, Mineichi Koga, had been stung into action. He sent forward to Rabaul substantial cruiser forces in support of troop and supply ships, still did not commit battleships or carriers so far as U.S. reconnaissance could determine...
...automatic howitzer" is a 4.2-in. mortar which can slam out an 8-lb. shell every three seconds. Developed before the war by the Chemical Warfare Service to throw gas shells, it can also handle high explosive shells for use against tanks, pillboxes and troop concentrations. Unlike other mortars, which are smoothbores, the 4.2 is rifled, has a range of two miles. Yet the shells slide straight in, without engaging the rifling. The sliding shell hits a pin in the mortar which sets it off. A disk at the base of the shell expands under pressure of the gases, engaging...
Pearl Harbor to Kula. Only once in World War II has the Japanese Navy fought a major surface action which was not linked with Japanese troop movements. That action was also the only defensive battle the Japanese Navy has fought. The record...
...incendiary bombs are appearing in great and deadly variety. The Russians are said to be using a rocket-propelled phosphorus bomb that explodes over troop concentrations, causing extremely painful burns to soldiers and dislodging them from foxholes, trenches, barricades...
When a certain troop transport left Seattle some time ago, three of the crew were caught after they had slipped ashore to make forbidden last-minute telephone calls. Checking up, military intelligence officers called the same numbers, to find out what information had been spilled. They found plenty...