Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diligently searching its field for war news, Science Service emerged last week with a new U.S. secret weapon in the South Pacific: the human nose. Solemnly the Service quoted jungle-veteran Sergeant Delmar Golden...
British and Canadian troops in Italy have been using an odd-looking, pipelike weapon vaguely reminiscent of the U.S. bazooka, and performing much the same function as a shattering short-range buster of tanks, armored cars or pillboxes...
...Allied artillery opened fire on pinpointed targets. By morning, every enemy gun had been silenced. Many had received direct hits; none was missed by more than five yards. The Germans and Italians were so astonished at the gunners' accuracy that, according to prisoners, they thought a secret weapon had been used. Thanks to the reconnaissance pictures, resistance was so thoroughly crushed that the British First Army took Tunis in 24 hours with only 100 casualties...
...Germans whom they will meet are admitted experts in the delicate and deadly art, use mines as a psychological as well as a destructive weapon...
...crew takes shelter in the bottom of the craft to avoid the backlash of flame from the rockets. The firing is directed from a steel, asbestos-lined turret in the stern. Navy officers conceded that the rockets had proved of value, but discouraged over-sensational treatment of the weapon, pointing out that it could only supplement the heavy-artillery barrage before a landing...