Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were keeping mum about it. Some Hollanders claimed they had seen V-2 launched from bare ground; others, from 80-ft. concrete pits. Some experts thought it could have been launched from barges off the Dutch coast. V-2 was variously reported to be guided by radio, by gyro compass, by fins, by spinning. But on one thing experts agreed: V-2 is a self-contained rocket, carrying its own oxygen and traveling at such speed (1,000 to 3,500 m.p.h.) that ordinary antiaircraft defenses are useless against...
...gallon a mile, the bomb has a top range of 150 miles. It can be set to fly at anywhere between 2,000 and 5,000 feet, thus taking advantage of any cloud cover available. Three gyroscopes, driven by bottles of compressed air and assisted by a magnetic compass in the nose (see cut), keep the bomb on its course. A small windmill in the nose regulates the range. Operating a counter as it turns, the wind mill acts as a timing device: at the set time it jams the controls and throws the bomb into a steep dive...
...Challenging Twentieth. While the next major moves were in preparation, the Jap was kept rocking on his heels by jabs from air forces working from all points of the compass, and by a heavy B-29 blow against the homeland...
There was no peace for the Japs anywhere. The noose of aerial bombardment, from every point of the compass, was drawing tight...
...gyro device can only hold the bomb on a single compass heading. Winds may drift it miles to one side; headwinds may bring it down miles short. The chance of hitting a good military target is good only because there are a lot of military targets in southern England...