Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swedes got an unscheduled preview of a new German weapon last week. A pilotless, rocket-driven aircraft crashed near Bertilstorp, in south Sweden. Apparently it had strayed out of control of its radio beam. Observers who studied the wreckage said the craft had no wings, tail, or landing gear. It carried two spherical mines which were thrown 100 yards by the crash, but did not explode...
...pack howitzer is the principal 75-mm. weapon. *Broken down, it is moved on the backs of mules. It is also the organic weapon for paratroop field artillery units. Dropped in seven loads, the 75-mm. can reach action seven minutes after crew and parts leave the plane...
...105s. The "all-purpose weapon" Of the war is a 105-mm. howitzer, which has superseded the World War I 75-mm. as an organic light artillery weapon. In U.S. infantry divisions, three artillery battalions are each equipped with twelve of these weapons. The 105-mm. howitzer fires a 33-lb. projectile approximately 6.9 miles...
Mounted on a self-propelled M-7 motor carriage, this piece became famous in Egypt as "the Priest," the antitank weapon with the pulpitlike machine-gun mount which broke Rommel's desert line. Another, a modified 105-mm. with a shorter muzzle and mounted on the same carriage as the 75-mm., is used by airborne artillery and infantry heavy weapons units...
Death behind the Door. Deadliest weapon with which U.S. police have to cope is the shotgun: "It seems that nearly every farmhouse in the country has a shotgun behind the kitchen door and these frequently become involved in crimes. . . ." Dr. Snyder debunks some common notions about poisons: arsenic and strychnine, for example, though often used, are very dangerous to a murderer, because their presence in the body can be detected for some time after the murder. Strychnine, one of the surest, quickest killers (sometimes within 15 minutes), can be detected three months after death. One of the hardest poisons...