Word: anti-tank
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...highest staff officer, have been conscious of the monstrous Russian superiority. Our battalions had to be spread out very thin to meet the Russian attacks everywhere. Last night we were forced to retreat hastily. .. . All we could take with us were a few artillery pieces and a few anti-tank guns. But many of our units managed to keep only their machine guns and rifles. It is with those weapons that we have been meeting since this morning wave upon wave of Russian tanks. . . . The grey sky is marked by swarms of enemy planes. . . . They add to our plight...
Most of the battalion's anti-tank guns had not come up. Under the first shock, it had to retreat from hill to hill, toward the sea. The battalion commander, trying to pull his companies together at the height of the German attack, was wounded. His executive officer, a young captain, had to take over. Upon him, for a tense while, the fate of the U.S. invasion rested...
...other officers, the captain held a position called Hill 41.* Tanks repeatedly overran the hill. Every man fought for himself. The unit on the hill had only one anti-tank gun. Officers sometimes fired the gun. They manhandled it on a wall, firing first at tanks to the right, then at tanks to the left. A captain seized a bazooka (the army's famed anti-tank rocket weapon), knocked out a tank 25 yards away. A lieutenant colonel of paratroopers, who had stumbled on the battalion and stayed with it, knocked out another tank with a bazooka, then...
Heavier landing craft, following in, brought more troops, light vehicles, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. Then as the beachheads were established, the Army started its materiel pouring in-armored cars, field artillery, heavy trucks, supplies, ordnance repair crews, signal equipment...
...Germans stuck to their assault tactics of last year: front-line bombing and heavy artillery preparation, followed by tank assaults and infantry. In defense, the Red Army also used familiar tactics, often letting the tanks through, then surrounding them and their suporting infantry. As at Stalingrad, the Russians had studded their front lines and rear with anti-tank strong points, ringed with mines, which caught the Nazi tanks in cross fire...