Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressures. The Americans had done more than break out of the bocage country by mere weight and superior fire power. They had fashioned a planes-plus-tanks-plus-infantry weapon to fit that hedge-rowed terrain. In the clear, they had employed their tanks in large force for the first time in France...
...Forces' record week of bombing Germany, the targets of some bombers were factories producing pilotless bombers and their fuels. How effective it would be in stopping the scourge, no man yet knew. In their sixth week of suffering from the Germans' Vergeltungswaffe 1 (Reprisal Weapon 1), Londoners had no relief...
...George Marshall's super-popgun is a 9-mm. corto (short) Italian-made Beretta automatic. As a weapon it is nothing special, but the General likes...
...going the rounds in Germany (and leaking out through Switzerland) was a sour little joke: Question-What is the only secret weapon that can save Germany? Answer-A long pole with a white flag...
...Mahatma retreated-or seemed to retreat-on other fronts. He said that he has no intention of reviving his old weapon, civil disobedience, while the war lasts. He assured Lord Wavell that he wants to aid the Allied cause, recognizes that India is a base of military operations. In a sentence laden with admission that much had happened to him and to India, he said: "I have no intention of taking the country back...