Word: antiaircraft
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...Army ordnance (antiaircraft guns, tanks, field artillery, powder, shells...
This is the problem of Charles Fleischauer '43, whose attempt to climb the north stairwell of Weld Hall on a hemp rope ended in defeat when he was brought down by the antiaircraft activities of the Yard police late yesterday...
...midnight last week three German planes were spotted skimming low off England's southeast coast. Soon antiaircraft guns began to bark up & down the shore. A heavy Heinkel bomber, her belly freighted with mines, was squarely...
...Storen to aid in besieging Trondheim from the south. Another contingent hurried southeast to brace the retreating Norse at Lillehammer (famed resort, home of Novelist Sigrid Undset) who faced the main German Army. In the Dovre Mountains around Dombås. German bombing planes, unopposed by Allied fighters or antiaircraft, again raised hob. They furiously strafed transports and harbor facilities at Molde and Andalsnes, blasted stations and rolling stock along the railroad, rendered precarious the communications and supply between both Allied advance parties and their slower-moving main force. When Allied airmen improvised a landing field on a frozen road...
...story written at white heat by white-haired War Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News, after he visited the Northwestern Expeditionary Force near its beachhead at Namsos, Norway (see p. 22). Mr. Stowe wrote, in indignation, of two advance battalions of raw British troops, without artillery, antiaircraft, supporting planes or even white sheets to camouflage themselves, who were "dumped into Norway's deep snows and quagmires of April slush ... to fight crack German regulars-most of them veterans of the Polish invasion-and to face the most destructive of modern weapons. ... A major military blunder which...