Drafting The Sun for Defense!
SUPPOSE magicians could be stationed at strategic points along the borders or coast of a country at war. Then when enemy battleships, submarines or bombers came within five miles, the magicians could mumble a few magic words, and presto!— the invaders would be blown to bits by their own explosives!
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AIR-TO-GROUND TV SYSTEM Transmits Combat Pictures on FM
Airborne military television crams a self-contained transmitting station into a small reconnaissance plane, then flies this ever-moving station over unpredictable terrain. Taking these adverse conditions into account, Admiral developed an extremely compact television system which uses FM transmission for the picture. Read the rest of this entry »
“ADOLPH, did you mean it?”
Less than four short years ago you inserted this travel ad in one of our finest magazines.
Remember it? You actually invited us. Now, take a good look at that convoy on one of the sea lanes, crossing the Atlantic … to Germany. The air lanes are open, too.
And we, Adolph, are doing our utmost to produce a sufficient amount of materiel* so that our “travellers” will not disappoint you.
* Typical users of UTC materiel are… RCA, G.E., Western Electric, Westinghouse, Bendix, Farnsworth, IBM, Philco, etc…
UNITED TRANSFORMER CO.
150 VARICK STREET NEW YORK. N. Y.
That sure worked out well…
France Builds World’s Greatest Defense System
In spite of the recent peace treaties and disarmament conferences, Europe is preparing for war. This article describes the French reaction to current peace talk.
NOT since the ancient Mongols erected the great Chinese wall more than two thousand years ago, has any nation conceived so gigantic a system of defensive fortifications as is now under construction on the eastern frontier of France and Belgium.
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Remember to always pay close attention when a Nazi enslaved zombie Frankenstein gives you car care tips, or you could end up just like them!
We Could Learn FROM A NAZI SLAVE – We Motorists!
They can give us some worth-while pointers … those Greeks and Danes and Frenchmen … Serbs and Czechs and Poles … who once were proud, free men like ourselves.
They never had cars —most of them —even before the Horror came. They don’t know about brakes or batteries or tires. But they do know things we haven’t yet learned.
They do know about tanks . . . that turned peaceful village streets into nightmares of blood and fear and death. They know about dive bombers … that filled the night with the light of burning homes and the cries of slaughtered children. They know the cost… in pain and shame and misery… of holding freedom too lightly or defending it too late. Read the rest of this entry »
Mechanics of Killing
From the first torture rack to the latest gas chamber, science has transformed the criminal’s execution from a human butchery into a skilled profession.
BY Lester David
WHEN the world was younger, the law’s method of exacting an eye for an eye and a life for a life was crude. Today the mechanics of executions have been made both deadly and scientific.
Not so always! In ancient Rome a condemned man, clad only in a loin cloth, was shoved by his executioner into a large sack. Into the sack also was placed a dog, a rooster and a poisonous snake. The writhing bundle was hurled into a swamp, and the execution had been carried out. Read the rest of this entry »
Radio-Controlled Rockets for the NEXT WAR
ADVANCES in the perfection of radio control for airplanes, tanks, and battleships have made it practically certain that the next war will see the use of these fearsome weapons of destruction in actual combat. Latest of the radio-controlled death-dealing devices is the explosive rocket depicted on this month’s cover of Modern Mechanics and Inventions, now being secretly developed. Read the rest of this entry »
Invasion Base on the Moon
“The first nation to establish a lunar military outpost will rule the earth” says Willy Ley, expert in rocket research.
THE man in the moon may plot the attack that will open World War III. For the man in the moon will be a powerful “spy in the sky” rocketed to the earth’s satellite by the aggressor nation to prepare the way for an all-out assault to conquer the world.
Soon after a 20th-century Columbus pilots his rocket to the moon, the nation that sent him there will have a lunar base that will expose any spot on earth to celestial spying and sudden rocket invasion. Read the rest of this entry »
PHANTOM RAIDERS of the AIR
CONCEALED by nothing but their coloring, two camouflaged planes on the ground eluded the vigilant eyes of the crews of six observation planes sent up to search for them during a test at the army air corps base in Hawaii. The observation ships spent one and one-half hours in hunting and not one spotted the camouflaged aircraft.
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INVENTORS! America Needs You!
by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Famous Military Expert EVERYBODY has at least one good invention up his sleeve—and now’s the time to cash in on yours!
Remember that idea you had last winter for a device to beat off air-raids? You always meant to get to work on it, but somehow never did. Or maybe you thought of a new kind of searchlight while working on your boat. Or a stunt which you believed would simplify minesweeping.
You’ve probably had ideas like these, or ones similar to them, at some time in your life and put them aside because you were ashamed to talk about them. Afraid your friends would ridicule you, or call you a nut.
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The Greatest Mother in the World
Stretching forth her hands to all in need—to Jew or Gentile, black or white, knowing no favorite, yet favoring all.
Seeing all things with a mother’s sixth sense that’s blind to jealousy and meanness; helping the little home that’s crushed beneath an iron hand by showing mercy in a healthy, human way; rebuilding it, in fact, with stone on stone and bringing warmth, to hearts and hearths too long neglected. Read the rest of this entry »
Now It’s LAND BATTLESHIPS!
THIS striking illustration by Staff Artist Reynold C. Anderson is a conception, based on all available technical reports, of what is perhaps the most amazing of all the new weapons developed in the present nightmarish war—the Russian “land battleship.”
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