Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scion of one of Canada's wealthiest families (armaments), had accepted his UNRRA command with a faint dislike of Poland and the Poles. Swiftly and publicly he changed his mind. More remarkable, perhaps, Drury had overcome Polish Government suspicions that UNRRA would be used as a political weapon...
...beach, retreat to strong positions, last-ditch defenses. The Japanese, however, still tried desperately to find a means to stop massed amphibious assaults at the water's edge. When the Marines were fighting on Iwo Jima, the high command pressed for development of an anti-landing craft weapon suitable for cheap, quick mass production. The fukuryus were the result...
There Never Will Be. An Arkansas accountant: "There never will be a counter-weapon to eliminate the horrors and the devastation.There will be a defense to some extent, though; they'll find similar destructive devices to prevent aircraft from getting through. But we won't know if there's a defense until the next war. If one is invented it will be kept secret until there is a need for it. ... But we shouldn't share the bomb now; I mean we shouldn't share it with any nation at all. Because the next three...
...Italy, and she worried about taking so much money home. So she stopped at her brother's house and asked him to go with her. He was too busy, he said, but he gave her a pistol. On the way she met two villagers, who examined the weapon, found it unloaded and gave her two cartridges. A little farther on she met two masked men who demanded money. She fired twice, killing both. Then she went over to the bodies and lifted the masks...
...July 1945 Towers was named boss of Third Fleet carrier forces. It was his chance at last to show his mettle in a combat command with the air weapon he had done so much to forge. But the Japs surrendered before he could strike a blow. Last week to Birdman Towers came as much recognition and vindication as he could now expect; with an admiral's four stars, he was named to succeed Spruance as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas. Naval aviators, already winning key posts in Washington (TIME, Dec. 10), were at last...