Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese Fleet of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines, the capital ship was the aircraft carrier. That fleet, built around seaborne air power, had to retreat before U.S. air power in a still mightier form: the land-based airplane, now come into its own as a dominant weapon of naval warfare...
...People are asking," said the London Daily Mail, "whether we can win the war with this devastating weapon alone. . . . The war will not be won so long as the German Army is in being. We have to destroy that mighty instrument. It is possible to do it by air action. The Army could be disintegrated by smashing civilian morale, or by destroying supplies at their source...
...Professor Fred Eastman of Chicago's Theological Seminary wrote in the Christian Century: "Our young dramatists would do well to consider the psychological nature of this weapon of hate by which they seek to improve our morale. Hatred is a consuming fire. The dramatists may fan this flame, but they cannot control it. Some day ... it will spread through our own midst and blaze out in race riots, in conflicts between Capital and Labor, and in the violent rebellion of our dispossessed sharecroppers...
...Food-Weapon of Conquest (Warwick Pictures; United Artists), a propaganda documentary film, makes a thrilling story of the role of food in World War II and after. Lucid, instructive, it is just what the U.S. Department of Agriculture might have ordered to explain its new wartime strategy for the land. It was made, not in Hollywood, but in Canada...
...plywood and "doped" fabric), and have such a variety of potential uses, that no one could believe that the U.S. is employing motorless flight only to make its pilots better flyers and to teach them an awareness of wind & weather. A glider full of troops is no home-defense weapon...