Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time this shrill declaration was made there was no longer reason to doubt that Germany had already dealt the first blow. The weapon had been Japan. The attempt to cut the U.S. life line to the Orient was the opening move of the second phase of World War II, designed to prevent the U.S. from helping its Allies while the Axis disposed of them...
...hospitalized officer brushed aside his nurses when the first alarm was sounded, ran across the Yard to his ship. So effectively did he fight, despite his illness, that his captain recommended promotion. One tough sailor, unable to find a mount for a heavy machine gun, fired the weapon from his arms despite terrific rapid-fire concussion...
Admiral Yamamoto subscribes also to the Japanese predilection for the torpedo as an attacking weapon. He considers the gun an ancillary weapon to be used mainly to create opportunities for decisive torpedo attack. The Japanese service torpedo is larger and more powerful than most (only equals: those fired by Britain's Nelson and Rodney), and Japan boasts an unusual number of small torpedo-bearing craft...
Blue-eyed, broad-shouldered Admiral Kimmel had been struck with war's most effective weapon: surprise. His whole mission had been vitally changed. He needed to re-establish the lifeline between the U.S. mainland and Admiral Thomas C. ("Tommy'') Hart's Asiatic Fleet along the line Honolulu-Midway-Wake-Guam-Manila. But for the moment his mission was mainly defensive. It was almost as thoroughly defensive as the mission of Lieut. General Walter C. Short, commander of Honolulu's Army defenses, who also fell victim to surprise, but who could probably blame...
...weapon will be a great improvement on the pre-war standard U.S. anti-aircraft piece: a 3-incher with a top altitude of 15,000 to 18,000 feet. Next came a 90-mm. gun-in its turn quickly outmoded by aircraft designers. Now the race between gun and airplane should be closer. German and British aircraft designers are also out after higher operating altitudes. The top-flight aircraft of 1942 will still be able to crawl up beyond the reach of the new 4.7's threatening fingers. But their pilots won't-until aircraftmen design a suitable...