Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beachhead's highest hill, 4,250-ft. Djebel Zaghouan) and then, when artillery and lookouts commanded the lesser places, to drive up the broad valleys. Doubtless he had concentrated in those valleys the things which General Eisenhower last week said had become, not just an obstacle, but a weapon in Tunisia-the land mine. On the hills Kesselring was deeply dug in, with plenty of the 81-mm. mortars which have always been a weapon but are especially an obstacle in Tunisia...
...changing needs of war come along and show that we do not need any more of a certain weapon, but on the other hand we need far more than we had originally estimated of another weapon...
Aldo Nadi, 44, is a handsome, steel whip of a man, so slim (6 ft, 128 lb.) that on the fencing strip he bears a strong resemblance to his weapon. Some fencers consider him the greatest swordsman who ever lived. The son of a famous Italian Maître d'Armes, Aldo began fencing at four, won his first title at twelve, is acknowledged the world's finest foilsman...
...show of courtesy toward the judges-for whom Nadi usually has only the most perfunctory respect. In saluting an opponent, a Nadi fencer must hold his mask in his left hand with four fingers on top, look his adversary straight in the eye, bring the blade of his weapon up before his right eye, then sweep it down and to the right. The blade, says Nadi, must whistle through the air, must under no circumstances commit the "frightful discord" of striking the floor...
...most thoroughly experienced air force in the world. But they did not agree. Dive-bombing, conceived and brought to its highest perfection by the U.S. Navy, is still thoroughly alive in the U.S. forces. In the Pacific, the Douglas Dauntless (SBD) is still the most effective aerial weapon in the fleet, has done more damage than torpedo planes. Result of its showing: the Army Air Forces is now gladly taking instruction from Navy airmen on dive-bombing technique, and has taken up the SBD, which the Air Forces call...