Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition among the German people might seem strange and indicative of trickery. But the fact was that German propagandists, like German militarists, were setting up their last and toughest line of defense. For the all-out battle which they expected, nothing less than the truth could serve as a weapon-for the German people had learned the truth at Stalingrad and in Tunisia...
...Radar is by no means perfected, but it has revolutionized war communications. It is used for picking up incoming planes, telling the pilots their positions and guiding them in. It also keeps pilots constantly informed as to their height above ground. Says FORTUNE: "It is the one big defensive weapon called forth by the overreaching airplane, and the struggle now going on in radar defensive and offensive tactics is the greatest battle of wits in this century...
...Churchill let drop a revealing remark about the forces based in Africa, the way station to southern Europe, and in Britain and Ireland, the Allied bases nearest northwestern Europe. He said that the British, American and French armies in Africa form "a most powerful and finely tempered weapon." He then referred to "the more numerous and powerful forces-British, Canadian and American-which have formed and are forming in the United Kingdom." In other words, the weapon for attack on southern Europe already exists; a mightier weapon for heavier assault on the Continent from Britain is still in the making...
...classes of 200 (25% is average mortality among O.C.s), students start off with six weeks' intensive study of the infantryman's 13 weapons, from Garand to bazooka. They learn what each can and cannot do; sometimes they aim a weapon two hours before firing. They also learn to live harder and in more orderly fashion than they knew even in the Army's tough school of the enlisted soldier...
...chiefly responsible for the M-3's development, Colonel Rene R. Studler. was cautious in his predictions for the new gun, pointing out only that its lightness and ease of assembly would make it a valuable weapon for parachutists. But other officers wondered privately whether the M-3 might not be destined to serve as a "revolt gun," to be dropped by parachute to the rebellious people of conquered Europe when the time is ripe. Colonel Studler's gadget will never stir a gunsmith's soul, but to a despairing Pole. Czech or Dutchman it might look...