Word: turrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...much as the sunk destroyer Reuben James (1,193 tons). Submerged, she displaces 4,304 tons. She can cruise 12,000 miles-more than two complete round trips from Plymouth, Mass, to Plymouth, England. She is so big that she carries a seaplane in a hangar aft of her turret...
Meanwhile the Army is beginning to get 30-ton mediums. In the Armored Force, plans are already afoot to use a bigger proportion of the mediums (armed with 75 mm. cannon) and an improved M-4 model is soon to go into production (biggest improvements: a revolving turret for the 75, lower silhouette, a partly welded, partly cast armor hull). British officers now concede that today's M-3 model is the finest thing on the ground...
...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...