Word: rocketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This little aircraft is a captured Japanese suicide rocket bomb, fitted with a pilot's cockpit, steering controls and an explosive warhead in the nose. It may have been modeled after the pilotless German V-i robomb, which it resembles in size and destructive capacity. Japanese broadcasts have glorified it under the name Jinrai ("sudden peal of thunder"), but U.S. fighting men promptly tagged it with another Japanese term, baka ("stupid"). In operation, Stupid is carried near its target by a bomber, then cut loose. The pilot glides down and can fire three rockets in the tail to give...
...island, that the North Sea, Dover Strait and the English Channel, which for centuries had served England "in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house," had for purpose of war shriveled to a trickle. Henceforth, unless a defense as effective as rocket bombs could be developed, Britain was within shattering range of any aggressive European power...
Included in the many dreams of how the post-war world should be are a wide assortment of ideas for rocket planes, super-autos, revolving houses, and international organizations. However, the angle of a better place to work in is often shelved in one's mind with the realization that work is always distasteful and that it can't be helped...
Long-distance German guns were indeed almost ready to rain ten V-3 rocket shells a minute on the British capital. At Mimoyecques, near Calais (95 miles from London), Allied troops found 50 smoothbore gun barrels, each 400 feet long, sunk 350 feet into chalk hills. The installation was partly protected by 18-ft. concrete roofs, impervious to bombs. But steady air attack had slowed the Todt Organization's construction of the site until it was too late. Also found were seven other elaborate installations on the French coast. At least one was for another secret weapon, still...
During his year in liberal arts high school, Peter envied his vocational school friends who spent six months working on big new mockups of rocket planes and FM distributors, and six months making money at a job. But after the first of his monthly field trips to Mexico and Canada, he began to take a broader interest in the world, got to thinking that the Great Books his teachers talked about might really be worth reading after all. During his 100-day, 10,000-mile tour of the country, he found himself more interested in the business side of things...