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Thereafter we confined our practice almost exclusively to drawing from the hip and shooting without sighting. It is impossible to sight with a gun equipped with a silencer, you know, since the silencer covers the sighter on the barrel." "It sure does," Strawn drawled. "So every last one of you folks had a good deal of this sort of practice, I take it?"
The sighter in the conning tower moves swiftly, up within range of the vessel he is attacking and gives the signal for the discharge of the torpedo. The men aboard the attacked ship have no warning of their impending death except a thin sheaf of water that follows on the surface in the wake of the submerged torpedo and which lasts only an instant.
All that is necessary now is to set the sighter of the telescope at the angle given in the tables, and when the object to be hit appears at the sight, the bomb is dropped. THE GREAT EXTENT OF MODERN BATTLE LINES. The great war brought into the field such stupendous masses of men that the battle lines have extended over an unbroken front of over 200 miles.
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