Word: anti-tank
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...Germans had sown the slopes and the ridge with mines, booby traps, concealed anti-tank guns, mortars, machine guns and riflemen. Three times before, the third battalion had tried to take 532 and each time they had been driven back with losses...
...potent have anti-tank defenses be come (TIME, March 29) that the Panzer division's infantry (one regiment) is no longer powerful enough against strong resistance to clear the way for its tanks...
This lesson the Russians taught the world first. Before the Germans' massed Panzer assaults of two years ago the Russians set up defenses in depth, teamed infantry with anti-tank teams and smashed up tank assaults...
...anti-aircraft gun (replaced for medium altitude firing by the Bofors 40-mm.) and the famed 75-mm. field artillery piece (which gives way to the higher-velocity 3-in. gun that can stop any tank seen thus far). Infantry divisions still get some 37-mm. guns for anti-tank defense but will eventually replace them with six-wheeled...
...djebels were taken. Between them lay a hollow with a huge, V-shaped anti-tank ditch and behind the ditch a nest of 88-mm. guns. The enemy had dug their ditch well, using pneumatic drills to get deep into the rocky subsurface. A British battalion was sent in to clean out that pocket of resistance. It was mean work, but they...