Onion throwers blast dive bombers

Title (Dublin Core): Onion throwers blast dive bombers
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Ships; en Anti-aircraft
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Title: Onion throwers blast dive bombers
extracted text (Extract Text): A NEW defense awaits dive bombers tack-
ling Great Britain's new battleship
King George V. Pictures taken when the
35,000-ton vessel visited the United States
recently revealed four weapons the like of
which have not been seen before in any navy.
Nicknamed “onion throwers” by some ob-
servers, their purpose is to throw such a
quantity of high explosives
in the path of a plane that
if it is not destroyed, at
least it will be unable to
aim its bomb effectively.
A. G. Cole, writing in “Our
Navy” magazine, states that each weapon
has twenty barrels, each at least 7.5 inches
in diameter and about eight feet long. He
suggested that the nearest comparable
weapon was the 7.5-inch howitzer developed
during the last war which fired a 100-pound
high-explosive shell for a distance of 2,100
yards from a single barrel.
Language (Dublin Core): Eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1941-06
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 138, n. 6, 1941
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 72
Rights (Dublin Core): Public domain
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Sami Akbiyik