Word: anti-tank
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Drawing the lesson that tanks will not advance where they cannot see ahead, Levy told how tanks were stopped in Madrid by blankets hung across the streets. Fearing that the blankets might conceal an anti-tank gun or a tank trap, the tanks stood off and punched holes in them with one inch shells, and "you can punch a helluva lot of one-inch holes, in a blanket," he said. "A man with hand grenades could beat a tank easily at close range and in such cramped quarters," he added...
...Russians' massed artillery, their infantry's deadly, two-man anti-tank guns, grenades and Molotov cocktails ripped up German armored columns as they did in last year's battles. But last week there were differences, and the differences favored the Germans. When the Red soldiers found a group of German tanks, they also found German artillery and mortars, bunched to answer the Russian fire. And, in vital sectors, Moscow had to admit that, for all the Red Army's brilliant artillery and anti-tank tactics, for all its carefully devised defense-in-depth, the Germans with...
...long had men trained in anti-tank tactics, armed with stationary artillery to defend infantry positions, supplemented with a bag of tank-hampering tricks including "asparagus beds" (barricades) and traps borrowed from the engineers, "Molotov cocktails" learned from the Spanish, and "boom biscuits" (tank mines). At Camp Hood men learn to use all these, but most important, they are learning how to handle tank destroyers. The phrase "antitank" is disappearing in favor of "tank destroyer...
...tank has two weaknesses: 1) blind spots; 2) slow speed. It is General Bruce's problem to figure out how destroyers can capitalize on these weaknesses. The TD's own weakness is lack of armor. Its strength is speed. General Bruce is figuring out tactics by which a destroyer can get in its dirty work with the least risk. He stands on a hill to watch half his men charge over the ground in tanks while the other half bedevil them with tank destroyers and all known anti-tank tricks. As all this goes on, Bruce...
Rommel was reported massing strong forces of anti-tank guns and showed no signs of withdrawal, despite his difficult supply problem and the heavy pounding he was taking from...