Word: antiaircraft
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...though magnificent in their stubbornness, were strained to the very limit. No defense has ever been designed which can stop night air attacks. Last week Britain did the best it could with what it had. What it had were three fluid fortresses: the R. A. F., the balloon barrage, antiaircraft batteries...
...Army, which garrisons Navy bases, will have to put barracks, men, coast artillery and antiaircraft, land-based fighters and bombers on the islands. On its present schedule, the Army cannot do this job adequately before...
...painted out the names (but not the U. S. Navy numerals) of other ships of the same class. Hustled aboard were oil for an Atlantic crossing, reportedly full stores of 21-inch (British-size) torpedoes for the twelve tubes, shells for the four 4-inch guns and lone, outmoded antiaircraft gun which each destroyer carried. Reportedly installed on some was Great Britain's prized DeGaussing rig of electrical cables, to foil magnetic mines. Aboard each vessel were some 60 U. S. Navy men and officers (about half the normal crew). They were detailed to deliver the ships (probably...
...wrinkles of defense showed themselves. Berlin admitted the efficacy of British barrage balloons by raising a circle of its own. R. A. F. pilots report a new type of antiaircraft: strange, fitful spirals of red which were dubbed "googly fire." Googly bowling in cricket corresponds to screwball pitching in baseball...
Results, according to the British story: five Italian aircraft were shot down by Fulmar Gladiators and antiaircraft; and four others were chased almost to Sicily. The next day Britons, who refuse to take Italian warriors seriously, speculated about the dive bombers' design (they are probably the planes approved only last February, first tested in March) and had a chuckle about the name. Picchiatelli, it appeared, was Italian for a word in the picture Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, which was extremely popular in Italy-pixilated. It was used to describe Signor Gary Cooper as slightly daffy...