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...North Dakota, scrapped before the march of naval progress, was a Mississippi scow compared with the U.S.S. Washington, one of the newest battlewagons, with her heavy armor protection for crews above decks (against shell and bomb splinters), her massive armament (topped by nine 16-inchers), her imposing hull and turret armor, her sleek, low-lying speed lines...
...Army tank, nosing across a creek near Fort Knox, Ky. on a slithery pontoon bridge, slid off into water up to its turret top. That annoying accident suggested to Lieut. Colonel Thomas Henry Stanley (16th Engineers) that it was about time the Army developed a new kind of pontoon bridge for mechanized warfare. The old bridge of planks on boats had not been radically changed since the Civil War, although as early as 1846 the U.S. Army was experimenting with rubber pontoons...
...submarines use air conditioners and almost all naval shipbuilders cram conditioners into the tight hulls of destroyers, the sealed gun-turret rooms of other craft...
...gullies in its own way. Powered by a 250-h.p. Guiber-son Diesel engine, it has impressive speed -better than 80 m.p.h. on smooth highways-is fast and nimble over rough ground. It mounts two .50-caliber machine guns and a slim-nosed, long-barreled 75 in its flat turret...
...year-old Rear Admiral Blandy, whose consuming passions are ordnance and gunnery. When he was gunnery officer on the U.S.S. New Mexico from 1927 to 1929, the battleship twice won the Battle-Efficiency Pennant ("Meatball" to the sailors) as well as a pair of gunnery trophies and two turret Es. Says a pal: "Spike's idea of a perfect target practice was to shoot the masts off the target ship from 8,000 yards, starting with the top and working down. Throwing shells into the hull was shooting fish in a bucket...