Word: turrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopeful that her old-fashioned reciprocating engines have been fairly well preserved by the thick, overall film of oil. The Navy has not yet decided what it will do with the ship when she can plow the waves again. The Arizona is being cut up for scrap. Her turret mechanism, main and secondary batteries will be used elsewhere. Even the old Utah may yet deal a blow for revenge : some of her ammunition has been recovered, and her sister ships may fire it at the infamous...
Visibility was zero. On his first pass the pilot missed the field; he circled for another try. Staff Sergeant George A. Eisel, in the tail turret, caught a blurry glimpse of the ground. Then, with a rending crash, the plane tore itself to wreckage against a low hillside. Eisel was hurled from his seat, forward among the dead. Flames licked close enough to singe his eyelashes before drenching rain put the fire out; 26 hours later he was able to tell rescuers what had happened...
...plane got interception, about five Zeros or I-978. Just then the plane's turret guns jammed and it dumped its bombs over the bay and got out heading down the coast. We saw a tanker as we flew-he went crazy-he was going full speed in one direction, then he reversed and started full speed in the other direction...
...German officer's suit of silk underwear, which he wears. His outer clothes are informal: sweater and pants. To his troops he became a familiar and spectacular sight, touring the front line in a tank, his hawk's head in a beret protruding from the turret. Sometimes he wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through the sky in a Fieseler Storch reconnoitering plane left behind by the Germans. His headquarters was an elaborate caravan...
...wheels. Thus, the model Hurricane fighter (with rubber tires) which the R.A.F. gave Iraq's seven-year-old King Feisal last year was just right. En route to Feisal last week was another device, a belated Christmas present: a three-foot-long General Grant tank with a swiveling turret. It had wheels in stead of treads, but the chains were gold...