Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This modern descendant of the horse-drawn French 75 is a cross between a gun and a rocket launcher. It is handled in the field by a small crew, can knock out a tank if it hits the treads or the relatively thin side armor. One drawback: the blast which spurts from the openings in the rear of the recoilless rifle reveals the weapon's position...
...this stage of ex isting first-line elements of the Canadian army . . . would not be warranted.") ¶ Send an R.C.A.F. transport squadron (up to ten planes) to help the U.S. airlift across the Pacific. The North Star planes, with crews and 200 ground personnel, were to fly to McChord field, near Tacoma, Wash., this week to operate be tween there and Tokyo...
Principal air navigation aids in the days before "omnis" were radio ranges. They were better than nothing, but they did not tell the pilot enough. What they did was provide four "beams," which he could follow from range to range or to a field. But the beams were far apart, and finding them was a hard and time-consuming job. Furthermore, the ranges used low-frequency radio, and in stormy weather static made a hash of their signals, just when they were needed most...
...bombings were going to get worse. More airstrips in Korea would enable U.S. jets and Mustangs to give better support for ground troops; Red field positions and supply lines would be chewed up with deadlier regularity. The effects of Rosy O'Donnell's strategic strikes with the B-29s would take longer to hit the Communists at the front, but when they were felt, they would hurt...
Going after a soaring first-inning smash by Pittsburgh's Ralph Kiner, Ted threw himself high and hard against the left-field wall. He caught the ball, and went on to play for eight innings, driving in a run and making another hair-raising catch. But his left elbow hurt. After the game (the National League won for the first time in five years, 4-3), X rays' showed why: Ted had been playing for eight innings with a fractured elbow...