Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the doors were locked the SS men began to work with furious speed. First they nailed army blankets over every window. Then they hauled up huge cans of highly inflammable acetate. The 13 guards were all ready, armed with every weapon in their bursting arsenals. At a signal all sprang into action...
...longer a secret, V-2 was also no longer a weapon. Canadian troops had effectively cut off launching sites in The Netherlands from their supplies. England marked its eleventh straight day free of V-bombs, heard cheering tidings from the Ministry of Home Security : the V-2 campaign as Britons had known it was definitely ended; the Germans had been driven out of effective range. There were official toll figures: 8,436 persons killed, 25,101 injured by V-bombs since the attacks began on June 15. But Britons kept their fingers crossed; the enemy might still use aircraft...
...land, sea, air. Ernest King, a "battleship admiral," gave due credit to air power and especially praised the work of U.S. submarines. But triumphantly he declared: "The renewed importance of the battleship is one of the interesting features of the Pacific war. . . . Battleship fire provides the only gun (or weapon for that matter) which is sufficiently powerful and accurate to knock out reinforced concrete pillboxes eight to ten feet thick. . . . The battleship is a versatile and essential vessel, far from obsolete...
...Ordnance's jobs is to determine when soldiers' criticism of a weapon is based on fact and when it is just griping. In the case of the Royal Tiger and its 88-mm. gun, front-line criticism was impressively dismissed by fighting commanders, including Eisenhower and Patton, as a gripe. It was not until recently that field commanders decided the front-line men might be right and asked-but too late-for the T-26. There would not even be a token force of Pershings on hand now if Ordnance had not started building them more than...
...rest of its job, Ordnance could claim more than a passing grade. It had the best rifle in the world-the Garand (which the riflewise Marine Corps had originally rejected after exhaustive tests, thus proving that there is more than one judgment to be made about any weapon). It had been first on the field with the bazooka...