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General Douglas MacArthur prefers to watch, not duck, when enemy planes attack. It was so at Corregidor; it was so last week at Leyte. A .50-caliber bullet from a Jap strafing plane pierced the wall of his command post building, passed within a foot of his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Close, But No Cigar | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Said MacArthur, eying the bullet hole: "Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Close, But No Cigar | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...according to Hale, K-8 is the first to compensate for all the factors that deflect a bullet in air combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Long Punch | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...turret gunner in a bomber must consider a complex of factors - the speed and altitude of his own plane, the angle and speed of his target, range, bullet speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Long Punch | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Without warning or signal, the executioners fired:-two volleys. The six bodies slumped. Maquis officers ran toward the stakes, fired a revolver bullet into each head. Within a minute after the coup de grâce, the hands had been cut free, the bodies lay prone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death in the Rain | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

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