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...mine rifleman, Lou developed an accuracy famed in an outfit noted for its shooting, once he took up mortars. On Guadal he boasted he could lob a shell down a chimney, and did. When a Jap cruiser closed in to shore, Lou lobbed a few shells at it (like firing bee-bees at a bomber), explained, "I wanted to check my azimuth and it's just right." Many a mortar crew in the Solomons was Diamond-polished...
After a stint on the Sunday Dispatch he joined the Sunday Express, in November 1930, began writing "Sitting On The Fence" for Express readers, who immediately began to lob indignant letters into the Express office. Nat Gubbins kept at it, slowly acquired his present tremendous following...
Tank destroyers can even outrace their 30 m.p.h. foe, take a devastating crack at close range or lob shells from five miles away, with the help of small, low-flying planes to direct fire...
...armed forces and to the national defense is seriously impaired ... I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, pursuant to the powers vested in me . . . direct that the Secretary of War immediately take possession." This week, on the morning set for reopening, as tear-gas bombs began to lob through jampacked streets around the plants and violence began to spurt, soldiers with fixed bayonets marched into Inglewood...
...fire and the Banda . . . fade into the night. ... At 2:30 a.m. enemy firing starts in earnest. They're firing right down our lines, the peeng of their ricochets strikes me as being as funny as hell. ... In the meantime our machine guns open fire and we lob two mortar shells into the bush, and the Gold Coast add to the noise by firing rifle grenades and by the time I have made up my mind where to place myself the whole show is over and back I go to sleep...