Word: armorer
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...Army has a very good tank armor. That fact was proved last week to newsmen who visited the American Car & Foundry Co.'s light-tank plant at Berwick, Pa. A.C.F. showed off its new, remarkably tough 1-inch tank armor by firing 37-mm. shells into sample plates. The shells used in the tests had extra-heavy charges of explosives, but were fired from a standard 37-mm. anti-tank gun at the point-blank range of 100 yards. From A.C.F. armor placed at a sloping angle to the line of fire, the shells bounced without making a dent...
...Army's Ordnance Department used to be proud of its relatively light (850 lb.), highly mobile anti-tank gun. Ordnance officers encouraged reports that the 37-mm. shell could pierce 1½-inch armor at 1,000 yards, tear through even heavier armor at shorter ranges. Ignored or denied were contrary complaints in the Army that the gun had been hastily adapted from an already obsolescent German model, that the U.S. version lacked the punch to stop modern tanks, that at best the gun worked none too well. Even after the Army quietly turned to 75-mm. field pieces...
...faced Ordnance officers last week lamely said that the A.C.F. demonstration was more of a tribute to A.C.F. armor than a reflection on the Army's anti-tank gun, declared that nobody else had armor as tough...
...months after her keel was laid at Camden, N.J., four months ahead of contract schedule, the great hull of the U.S.S. South Dakota slid, smoking, down greased ways and smacked the Delaware River. In ordinary times, another year would pass before the hull became a ship with all her armor, engines, guns. Now the Navy hopes that New York Shipbuilding Corp. can have the South Dakota ready to commission next January...
...surviving sister ship, the Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the world. Secretary Knox proudly compared the new U.S. ships' nine 16-in. guns with Bismarck's eight 15-in. guns, declared also that the Washington, North Carolina and South Dakota had better armor, could therefore take more punishment than even the Bismarck...