Word: anti-tank
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...massed them in unprecedented numbers, towed some in conventional fashion, mounted others in self-propelled units. In last year's Libyan campaign, the British confounded Rommel with their lighter, but then effective, 25-pounders. He took the lesson to heart, this year outdid the British in their own anti-tank tactics...
...pattern of desert warfare by stepping up the role of artillery. Before Tobruk's fall, when the British, confident of equal armor and equal or greater air strength, attacked Rommel's line south of the port, the German surprised them with a massive assembly of 88-mm. anti-tank guns and the British tanks took a dismal mauling-suffering losses which were at least partially responsible for the British defeat...
...Commando leader, 29-year-old Major K. R. S. Trevor, sent his men probing for information about Nazi defenses in that likely invasion sector. Commando machine guns and anti-tank guns, brought ashore in parts and quickly assembled, silenced a German pillbox. Rattled Nazis fired at each other. Nazi tracers lanced out toward the barges and naval-escort vessels, waiting offshore. The British spotted two German patrol vessels, sank one and set another blazing. Some members of the Commando kept up a covering fire from the beach; others slashed the German barbed wire, knifed, shot and clubbed German sentries. Farther...
...alloy is used in airplane engine coolers and radiators, ignition systems, cabin heaters, fuselage construction, parachute rip cords, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, anti-tank guns, shells and torpedoes...
Japanese officers disguised as fishermen had plotted to seize São Paulo State. Brazilian forces would be attacked by 25,000 local, secretly trained Japanese troops using anti-tank guns and artillery imported as agricultural machinery. On farms and in fishing villages, air and submarine bases were ready for a supporting invasion. Among the Jap dentists in Brazil was a General. Among the tomato growers was a onetime Jap Finance Minister...