Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mike was in the Passaic jail. The hardened cops, a few with sons of their own in the service who must some day begin to adjust themselves to civilian life, treated Mike gently. The charges were serious: armed robbery and carrying a concealed weapon. But no one seemed anxious to press the more serious charge of kidnapping...
Another effective enemy weapon: a 45-ton modernized tank-destroyer. It carried the same 88-mm. high-velocity gun as the Royal Tiger, but in a heavily armored boxlike compartment...
Bearing the brunt of U.S. antitank defense were two reliables: 1) the M36 (Slugger) with a high-velocity 90-mm. gun; 2) the fast, low-slung M18 (Hellcat) and its 76-mm. pieces. But the best antitank weapon of all is the rocket-firing fighter-bomber-weather permitting...
...razor is the best tool to use for stealing paintings. It is fast, noiseless, and may also be used as a weapon if necessary. Swiftly, silently, one December evening, an adept Buenos Aires thief went to work in the Argentine National Museum of Fine Arts. He chose a small (20 by 33 in.), valuable ($40,000) painting, Berge de Lavacourt by French Impressionism's founder, Claude Monet. There was only one guard on duty in the gallery, and he was twice called to the telephone that evening...
...Tokyo (1,500 mi.) was a long one. The Superfortresses, built for just such a job, had to go out with cut-down bomb-loads and carefully calculated fuel allowances to make the run and get home. But as airmen worked into intimate acquaintanceship with their massive, wondrously complicated weapon, the assaults were stepped up both in timing and in loads dropped. This week, when the B-29s had struck the great industrial center at Nagoya a second time, the force on Saipan could count five assaults on the Jap mainland...