Word: flak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacled Scientist Northrup is an avid detective-story reader but hardly a storybook detective himself. A onetime Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher, he joined the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1940, was in Honolulu Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese began dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. Dodging flak showers, Civilian Northrup dashed to the burning Navy Yard, helped put out submarine-detection devices from a patrol boat in pitching seas. In 1948, when Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss persuaded the Administration to establish an atomic-detection unit, selfless Scientist Northrup was borrowed by the Air Force, named technical director of something...
...After the French collapse in World War II, Airman Challe distinguished himself in the resistance by personally leading and executing "most delicate and dangerous" missions. He is credited with having obtained for the Eisenhower headquarters before D-day the order of battle of the German Luftwaffe, the placement of flak installations and of the main dispositions of the German army. Characterized as a man "who always happily chooses the most perilous posts," General Challe is a dedicated Gaullist...
...their best prisoner bag of the 21-month-long fight: one major, four captains, twelve lieutenants; they liberated almost 300 soldier prisoners through the International Red Cross. Their weapons position was improving. In the summer counterattack they took good booty-500 pieces, including five bazookas, an armored car, two flak guns...
...light carrier Ryujo with cruiser and destroyer escort from 14,000 ft. Just after Ryujo turned into the wind to launch fighters, Don Felt, Topeka-born, Annapolis '23, pushed over his first wave of bombers. Then he went down with the second wave in a screaming dive through flak and fighters to score one out of his group's four to ten 1,000-lb.-bomb hits on the carrier. And while Don Felt's bombers kept the Japanese busy, Lieut. Bruce Harwood roared in with his torpedo planes from both sides and scored a crippling...
...they believe the T-54 may prove too heavy for effective use. are themselves looking for a fast new 30-ton tank. In the Moscow parade the Soviets also showed an antiaircraft tank, as big and mobile as the T-54, mounting twin 57-mm. flak guns. The U.S. has no antiaircraft tanks...