Word: anti-tank
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...went with a captain called Peter in his Bren gun carrier. His job was to go in with the first infantry attack and then to haul mortars and anti-tank guns across the wadi, once we had consolidated our positions. Zero hour was originally 11, then it was postponed until 1 in the morning...
...Tank's Reversal. The necessities and lessons of war had set men to work on mobile guns which would knock out tanks. By last week many military observers believed that the anti-tank men had succeeded. The stock of the tank had dropped precipitously...
...Said Major General Levin Campbell, the Army's Ordnance chief, last fortnight: "In France, in Poland, in the Balkans, Germany pitted tanks against fixed fortifications and against infantry. . . . There were no good anti-tank weapons against them." The German tanks had only to be "fast enough to rumble through after the enemy's artillery had been blasted from its fixed positions, which were easy to hit." The highly touted 60-ton German Mark VI, said the General, is a flop...
...Gilbert Co., famed for its metal Erector sets, has invented reasonable facsimiles in wood and porcelain. Lionel Corp. has substituted fiberboard model railroad kits, with "realistic roadside accessories," for their streamlined electric trains. Other ersatz build-it-your-self sets ran the gamut from Flying Fortresses and anti-tank guns to farms complete with milking pails, and three-ring circuses complete with rolling lion cages. There were cardboard guns that rat-a-tat-tatted just as if they were made of metal, Para-Commando dolls (with ammunition and food kits), miniature WAVES, WAACs and Marines, wooden roller skates...
Typical was the fighting in central Tunisia, near Sened, where battle-green U.S. troops got a fiery baptism. Their objective was the Sened railroad station, 50 miles from the coast. As their half-tracks and anti-tank guns advanced through a sandy valley, German 75s and 88-mm.s in the hills opened up. German planes dive-bombed them, strafed infantrymen as they rolled up in trucks...