Word: anti-tank
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Result according to the British Ministry of Economic Warfare: although total German industrial production has fallen off at least 20% since last year, the output of such high-priority defensive weapons as fighter planes, tanks, land mines, antiaircraft and anti-tank guns has actually risen. Even Ruhr coal production has been largely maintained by doubling and tripling shifts, calling for volunteer workers. The locomotive shortage, one of Germany's worst problems, has been eased as German forces retreat and shorten the distances to the front...
...Russia the Germans are using a wheeled anti-tank torpedo, as big as a motorcycle sidecar, electrically guided and detonated by a cable trailing from the torpedo to the operator. The Russian defense: cutting the cable...
...Army's anti-tank bazooka is a rocket weapon. Two U.S. rocketeers, Drs. Theodore von Karman and Frank J. Malina, are cooking with propulsion for the newly founded Aerojet Engineering Corp., in Pasadena. The Luftwaffe is using highly effective rocket guns on its fighters. Unconfirmed, but believable, is the report that the Germans have at least one more rocket weapon: a gun which will outdistance the Big Bertha of World War I and hit London from the Channel coast...
...slopes of Mt. Etna and its foothills and on ridges overlooking the Plain of Catania, the Germans had every advantage. Their heavy artillery, anti-tank guns and machine guns bore downward at the British attackers. Northwestward, where the Canadians and Americans were advancing to aid the British and encompass Etna, every hill and defile could become a similar fortress when the Ger mans chose to make...
...Punch. The attack on all the hills went well. The enemy was human. On the second evening, just before dark, our men launched the final attack. All units moved-even the tanks, which punched along the road in the face of well-placed anti-tank guns. The attacks by the tanks and by three infantry combat teams were beautifully timed. The enemy was bewildered, shattered by deadly accurate artillery and demoralized by dwindling supplies, which our air attacks far behind his lines had diminished. The enemy pulled out, and our men walked into Nicosia...