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MONDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1944
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SCIENCE AND WAR
.. (Cincinnati Enquirer) ..
—In popular belief, Am
erican, British and Rus
sian military scientists for
long have outdistanced the
Germans, and our technic
al equipment far Surpasses
that of the enemy. This
is a belief not altogether
untrue, but at the same
time not altogether true.
German mechanical in-:
genuity still is functioning'
at an unimpaired pace, and
in some weapons the Ger
man soldier is better eq
uipped than ours. The
German 88-mm. gun was
the outstanding weapon in
the Battle of Africa until
the British Eighth Army
broke the back of the Af
rika Korps with a greater
concentration of artillery
and planes.
On the Italian front,
where the Germans have
traded miles for time so
advantageously, the Nazis
are using several superior
I weapons with devastating
| effect. One is an arm our
'troops call a “burp gun,”
and which the Germans re
efer to as a machine pistol.
| It is a submachine gun a
bout as big as the familiar
tommy gun and shoots a
slug somewhat smaller
than a tommy gun, but
shoots twice as fast. The
fire is so continuous that
the noise it makes is vir
tually a “burp”, hence our
slang name for it. The
“burp gun” is deadly at
close range, because of its
ability to fire like water
from a hose and to cover
an area with a heavy rain
of lead. The Germans e
quip three men out of each
squad of eight with these
“burp guns”, and it can be
appreciated how deadly ef
fective they are on defense
Anyone hit by a “burp gun’’
is likely to be struck with
several dozen slugs because
of its rate of rire at 20
per second.
Then there is a six-bar
reled mortar which the
Germans have been using
effectively. Aind, Since
they have been on the de
fensive, the Nazis have
made land mines hideous
ly effective. They use
them as unmanned artil
lery, to contest the Allied
abvance at almost every |
turn in the road. Then;
there are the robot bombs,
which German scientists
developed too late to be|
of decisive effect in the
war, but which have been
a terrible scourge to south
eastern England.
The Allied warfrfattrit
ion against the Reich, par
ticularly from the air,
has cramped the abilities
of the German scientists.
That is a factor verv much
«/
in our favor, because, we
have the industrial facil
ities to turn out in quanti
ty any new weapon that
emerges fron our ordnance
laboratories.
But we still can’t afford
to go to sleep (there is no
indication that we are).
; One of the decisive facts
| of history was the technical
superiority of the British
Spitfire over the much
more abundant types of
German planes in 1940.
But for that, most likely
the Axis would be ruling
the world today.
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December 20, 1934.
(Ten Years Ago)
Washington reveals that
. Saito, the Japanese ambas
sador, is expected to de
liver to the State De
partment the official word
that Japan intends to ab
rogate their treaty on De
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means that the sky’s the
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