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Aviation History
1942
1942 - 2125.PDF
OcTorER STH, 1942 FLIGHT Advertisements. 27 V AMD MEW S? THE "BALLISTA" T HIS early "engine of war" represented the peak of the ingenuity attained in the era of the Roman Empire, and historians claim that " it beat down battle ments and corners of towers and overthrew whole files of soldiers even to the rear rank." . . . but it is more than probable that its greatest virtue lay in the element of surprise it afforded, and in the fact that the secrets of its construction were limited to one combatant only. Similarly, in this war of mechanism, the early development of the aerial gun turret by this country has brought us many a victory over the turret-less Luftwaffe. GUN TURRETS BPH
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