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Around Tulagi, the bull's-eye, are other rings of the Navy's target. Most important of them passes through the island of Guadalcanal, said to be the only spot on the Solomons where a big system of air-dromes could be established. For the rest, the Solomons are precipitously mountainous (highest peak 10,000 feet), bordered with miasmic mangrove swamps, inhabited by ebony-black natives with an incurable habit of roasting and eating white visitors...
...Wing shooting and aerial machine-gunnery are basically the same: the mark is a flying target whose speed and direction must be gauged instantly and automatically. The Army Air Forces is using skeet in training. A team of ten officers and enlisted men from the Flexible Gunnery Schools is entered this week in the national skeet championships at Syracuse...
Protective equipment was moving steadily if slowly into cities in the "target areas." Auxiliary firemen were training. Test air-raid alarms were increasing. The Civil Air Patrol, of which Landis is particularly proud, was doing a bang-up job, flying a half million miles a week on courier and scouting work, though Army censorship kept its light under a bushel...
...knock out an enemy artillery has to shoot fast. Tanks won't wait. French artillery seldom got a bead on German spearheads. As recently as last year, it took about 30 minutes for divisional artillery to fire effectively on a target. Now U.S. artillery has learned how to do the trick in less than five minutes...
...common base point somewhere ahead. One gun gets the range in less than two minutes by correcting fire with the aid of the grasshoppers, or in no time at all if the area has been mapped and surveyed. A fire-directing center can then put every gun on the target in another two or three minutes. Reporting on the use of the Fort Sill method on Bataan, General MacArthur declared: "Massing fire, using a direction center, has been, proven beyond question. The Japanese were checkmated and seemed completely bewildered...