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...matter of seconds now. The bomb bay doors were open; the flak had begun, pin points of yellow blossoming slowly upward, then sliding by with a rush into the sky above. Now the planes were roaring 50 feet above the water; now the target was dead ahead. Now the bombardiers pushed their buttons, and now the big, dark mines, each weighing 1,500 pounds, tumbled from the planes. Some landed with a splash in the water; some hit the dams fair & square. When the roar of their explosions had subsided, the sustained, deeper roar of pent-up waters, suddenly released...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--More than 400 American and British planes, clamping an serial pincers on the Axis from French Africa and the Middle East, pounded 16 target areas stretching 700 miles from Greece to Sardinia yesterday in what was described officially as a "terrific hammering" of Southern Europe's crumbling invasion defenses...
...feet bombs blossomed from their racks, plummeted earthward, plunked into a 100-foot target circle with bright flashes, belches of flame and smoke. It was nice shooting. But the center of the target, a cloth-covered frame, still stood...
...time they were in sight their bomb doors gaped. From the bellies bombs fell away, seemed to stay in formation with the speeding craft as they shot toward the target. The first bomb hit the ground short of the target, bounced, ripped through. The next three went smack through it. The planes that followed had nothing left but the circle. No bomb missed it. Major Benn's skip-bombing lesson had come home...
...model are miniature guns that shoot a small lead pellet. The guns, designed by Colonel Edward P. Hamilton '18, as accurate as the 75's and 105's that the students will use. They are flatted out with regulation machine gun sights which line the muzzle up with the target. The students can load the guns and fire. The projectiles, when they hit the model, make a mark which can be observed by another student. Working together the two can bring the gun to fire 50 per cent of its shots within the first probable error area...