Word: anti-tank
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...corner sheered off by a German bomb, but Sub-Lieutenant Svetkov and a handful of grenadiers held the building for nine days. Barricades, trenches and machine guns were prepared to control the street intersection. At dawn twelve heavy German tanks, loaded with shocks troops, attacked. Hits from anti-tank guns set five afire. Seven rumbled on. Svetkov and his men had no more anti-tank ammunition, so they hurled grenades from the windows. Three more tanks were disabled. Four came...
...last roundup of the outnumbered defending Red Army. Triumphantly, the two battalions split to do a pincers on the Red's last redoubt. Then came disaster. From hidden positions in the dense cedar groves and yellow-brown hickory and maple woods flags waved, signifying heavy-caliber anti-tank fire. Grinning umpires scurried out in jeeps to rule that tank after tank was blown to hell & gone...
...battalion is commanded by a red-faced, rednecked, reddish-mustached, beetle-browed Irishman, Lieut. Colonel James Joseph Deery, 40, who talked himself (age 17) into the Army in World War I, graduated from West Point in 1925. The battalion, first Army anti-tank outfit, was organized only two weeks before last year's Louisiana maneuvers where it raised hob with Major General George Patton's famed tanks...
...their laurels and an empty keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon the rest of the way. The first score, chalked up 30 seconds before the opening whistle, came about after a pass, a punt, a prayer, and a foul ball into the left field stands. Refusing to use his anti-tank division until the opening of a second front, Hesdman Rocknelberry Fenn used three full teams and an umpire in subaning the hapless Hanoverians...
...behind the lines were medium heavy guns, in the middle of the city medium artillery, in the front ranks light artillery, anti-tank guns, machine-gun nests. All batteries were defended by tommy gunners, and at key points throughout the city small, speedy mobile units were in action rushing to meet each newly threatened advance. Medium artillery attempted to smash advancing tank columns before they deployed in battle formation, light artillery struck as the tanks drew closer and anti-tank guns opened up at less than 1,000-yard range; artillery and infantry closed around isolated German units. The tactics...