World war ll
Across
- 4. An important battle in World War 2 in the pacific, the Americans sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.
- 6. an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical.
- 8. anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried many individual bullets close to the target and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
- 9. An armored fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.
- 13. a protective mask used to cover a person's face as a defense against poisonous gas.
- 14. a type of reaction engine discharging a fast-moving jet that generates thrust by jet propulsion.
- 16. A 42 cm kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12
- 18. a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century.
- 19. A large ship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for take offs and landings.
Down
- 1. a warship with a streamlined hull designed to operate completely submerged in the sea for long periods
- 2. Base in Hawaii that was bombed by Japan on December 7,1941 which eager America to enter the war.
- 3. a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation.
- 4. an auto-firing, rifled long-barrel autoloading firearm designed for sustained direct fire with fully powered cartridges.
- 5. an alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short signals of light or sound.
- 7. a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945
- 10. a boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century.
- 11. 3-inch trench mortar is a smooth-bore, muzzle-loading weapon for high angles of fire.
- 12. bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry and longest range of their era.
- 15. One of the bloodiest battles in World War 2,a fight to the death for Japanese soldiers, as the Americans were coming close to Japan.
- 17. a small bomb thrown by hand or launched mechanically.