Word: 88s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major loses sight of the fact that the Army is doing all it can about the German 88s, the long hours Army men have to drive, and the number of dead that come from tanks. Has the Major investigated to find out whether Chrysler is doing all it can to keep the dust down, or whether the dust is part of the test? . . . Does he know that the threat of strike has its legitimate uses and is most often brought to bear on management to force it to improve working conditions? The Major also loses sight of the fact that...
...forests at the edges of the city. There they found trenches, pillboxes, antitank ditches. They also found begrimed, bone-tired soldiers and Luftwaffe officers scrambled in irregular detachments. And they found enormous numbers of antiaircraft guns with their wicked snouts now leveled, dug-in tanks with their deadly 88s, machine guns aligned, almost tripod to tripod, to sweep the highways. Perhaps...
What the hell sense does that make?" The Colonel's Cigars. Leipzig had 1,000 ack-ack guns, but they caused surprisingly little trouble. Most were captured intact. Nevertheless a hail of small-arms fire, and some shells from 88s and 105s, met the 2nd and 69th Infantry Divisions fighting their way in. The doughboys mopped up resistance, except for a nest of Germans, including the garrison commander holed up in the huge, red granite "Battle of the Nations" monument (a memorial to the defeat of Napoleon by a Prussian-Austrian-Russian-Swedish coalition...
...north of the Ruhr. "I was out in the open in a jeep in the middle of a convoy of specially armored tanks. Snipers were still present in all the villages we passed through, since nothing had been cleared. Through the night the Germans shelled our column with their 88s, and were registering as well with heavy caliber guns. But regardless of the guns the column pushed through by the first light of morning...
...proving grounds were dusty. . . . This brings to mind several problems confronting your union. . . . Have any representations been made to the management concerning the Tetter mines which are scattered all over Siegfried Proving Grounds? Has a vote been taken on a strike on account of the quantity of German 88s that keep getting into the tanks? Has the movement to secure a 20-hour day received any support? Particularly, I have been wondering about a problem that makes these proving grounds almost unbearable-that is, the number of dead and wounded tank drivers that show up in the tanks tested there...