Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II Nazi Panzers swarmed through Poland, crushing everything before them. They pushed through the Lowlands and France to Dunkirk. The weapon Germany's enemies had neglected between wars seemed to be irresistible. The U.S. hurriedly withdrew its few light tanks from the cavalry and infantry and used them as a nucleus for an Armored Force. Bigger guns were mounted on bigger tanks (while U.S. factories in a prodigious tank program poured out earlier, obsolete models). Still heavier armor and welded construction appeared. By 1943, the U.S. Armored Force had burgeoned to 14 divisions...
Thus the nation's trade names and trademarks enlisted in total war, and advertising became an effective home-front weapon. Some outstanding recent examples...
...will be up to the planners and plotters of Souk-el-Spaatz to defeat the Luftwaffe, support their own troops while they maul the Axis and block the enemy's evacuation from Tunisia. Their thunderbolt is an air weapon, but they have designed it to strike when & where it will best aid the men and weapons on the ground. This integration was the great achievement of Spaatz & Co.; how to achieve it was something they had learned the hard...
...Political Weapon...
According to his opinion, there is less inclination to use the church as a political and military weapon, and more of a tacit willingness to let it cultivate "those concerns which Christendom has tended to concede it as its distinctive bailiwick. Such a task would seem to be its most effective contribution to national morale." However, Dean Sperry warned of the danger of divorcing religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, thereby leaving the ordering of civilization to secular forces...