Word: turretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completed her speed tests. Last week she headed out to sea for the toughest tests of all: gunfire that would show how well she could stand the shock of her own battle punch. Many a navyman still remembers how some years ago one famed U.S. battleship fired her forward turret on her test run and spent six months in the navy yard getting her damage repaired. And now North Carolina was out to prove the hard way that she could take a slug many times heavier. Neither so fast nor so heavily protected as such new-day beauties...
...voice rose terribly through the three days. After her 16-inchers had been fired singly and by pairs, they were fired in turret salvos. After her 5-in. all-purpose guns (for surface and aerial targets) had been fired singly they were fired by twin mounts, then by ten-gun broadsides...
Perhaps his post as second in command of a gun turret at the Battle of Jutland gave George VI that sense of reality that modern monarchs seldom get. Perhaps it was his training as a pilot in the early R.A.F. But "the merit of having mobilized the Duke of York's social conscience goes to . . . the Reverend Robert Hyde," long a social worker among England's poor. Hyde once proposed a great welfare project to King George V. The King called in the Duke of York, asked him to sponsor the project. "I will do it," said...
Inspired by tales of women helping to defend Russia, Mrs. Edward Frederick Boultbee, the wife of an air-raid warden in the village of Attleborough, Norfolk, last week edged up to an "invading" tank in British Army maneuvers, popped a rock into the open turret...
...slight rise, and waved his right arm. There was dead quiet for perhaps ten seconds. Then M3 turned loose a horizontal stream of red death, directed towards a silhouette target 900 yards away. From the muzzles of four .30-caliber machine guns spurted bright tracer bullets; from the turret, the shells from a 37 mm. cannon cracked into the faraway pines. Ordnance men from far & wide saw what they had come mainly to see: the steady (22 to the minute) fire of the 75-mm. gun mounted on the starboard side of M3's hull...