Word: anti-tank
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Most vivid scene: a tank battle, showing Soviet soldiers riding on tanks up to the enemy's lines and then charging into the mouth of his guns. Through tank gun-slits the camera looks straight down the barrel of Nazi anti-tank guns, firing at point-blank range...
...produced 21,000 anti-tank guns, six times greater than our 1941 production...
Aided by American planes and anti-tank guns, French motorized and cavalry forces threw back the first attacks yesterday...
Land mines are generally divided into two classes: anti-tank and antipersonnel. The German IP2 is a typical anti-tank mine, disc-shaped, 10½ in. in diameter, 2¼ in. thick, weight 9 Ib. (5 Ib. TNT, 4 Ib. steel casing, detonator, etc.). Anti-tank mines are buried in the ground at strategic points through which approaching enemy tanks must pass. The number used may run into astronomical figures: a field 400 by 750 yards containing mines placed 1½ yards apart requires 5,000 mines. As many as 25,000 Russian mines have been...
...with the weary, eight-month-long, 1,500-mile retreat of the "Ten Thousand Greeks" under Xenophon in 401 B.C.; the 1,000-mile retreat of Charles X of Sweden from Yaroslavl to Warsaw in 1656. Rommel had fought a moderately successful rear-guard action, covering his trail with anti-tank guns and mortars. He had also been lucky. Cyrenaica's rainy season had slowed Montgomery's pursuit...