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To the top of Pittsburgh's grimy Gothic Cathedral of Learning went Dr. Gilbert D. McCann last week, there to bait his traps for thunderbolts and thus officially open the 1943 lightning season. Other claptraps (more than 200) were set out along power lines, on forest watchtowers, atop radio...
For ground training at deflection shooting, Fort Myers' gunners first fire compressed-air BB machine guns at moving model planes, soon move on to the skeet range. There, under the instruction of onetime civilian skeet-shooters, they learn how to lead the sailing birds from the traps. But the...
In the central sector Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's suddenly withered forces offered no resistance. Their plentiful sowing of land mines and booby traps delayed but did not halt the advance of U.S. troops, who overran Feriana and the Roman ruins of Sbeitla, jogged on past Sidibou Zid and...
Sirs: Referring to "The First Booby Traps" (TIME, Feb. 1), mention is made of Gabriel Rains, who first experimented with such devices. I have a letter written to my grandfather, William Alexander Carter, who went to Florida with the 2nd Dragoons in 1836. This refers to the Seminole Indians. "Adjutant...
> In spite of this and other contemporary reports that Rains was mortally wounded in this encounter, he survived to become a lieutenant colonel in the regular Army. As a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in 1860, he set modern warfare's first recorded boody traps (TIME, Feb. 1...