Word: shell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already been hit by a salvo. A few moments later (upper left) the Strasbourg has got away, and over the stern of the burning Bretagne is visible the airplane tender Commandant Teste. One shell of a salvo is bursting in the water. A short time later the bombardment has ceased, and the Bretagne is heeled over (middle left). This picture, evidently taken from a heavy destroyer, is from another angle and the Teste is out of the picture to the right. In the final picture...
Last week the sun was still warm at Rhodes. Metal fragments fell by the city and the earth seemed to quake, but the only thing colossal was the imagination of official Italy, which called this quaking of big guns and falling of shell and bomb "Italy's biggest naval and air victory...
...occupied by Italian troops (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Water is more important than steel in desert warfare. The British claimed that the water supply of Buna was sufficient for only a small garrison, and that the wells were within range of strategic hills from which the enemy could shell them. But what the British troops apparently feared more than thirst was a nutcracker attack which would flank Buna...
...themselves that war is wasteful business. The evidences were all around them: great stocks of airplanes, deserted cantonments, warehouses full of equipment that only the cut-rate dealer or the junkman wanted. Of all these white war elephants, none looked bigger than the 53 new powder and shell-loading plants built between April 1917 and Armistice Day, at a cost of $360,000,000. On Nov. 11, 1918. the U. S. was the world's No. 1 producer of explosives (86,663,000 lb. in three months). Thereafter the U. S., deciding it would see no more wars, junked...
...Almost at the same moment as we bombed I felt a thump, and the aircraft lurched to the right. A pom-pom shell had gone through the starboard wing. Then another shell hit the same wing between the fuselage and the engine. They were firing pretty well at point-blank range. It was all over in a few seconds. The navigator called out. 'O.K. finish.' Then we turned away...