Word: anti-tank
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...Facts. Ponderous shellproof bunkers, with antiaircraft, anti-tank and machine guns, have been built near Berlin's Zoo station, in the Friedrichshain workers' district, in the Lichtenberg factory area. A yawning anti-tank trench has been dug and tank barriers set up along the rear of Berlin's chief Government buildings...
...will be provided with twice as many medium (30-ton) tanks as they now have, with self-propelled artillery and armored cars, which they never had before. Under the new setup, each Armored Division will have 232 mediums, 39 self-propelled 75-mm. howitzers, 27 self-propelled 37-mm. anti-tank guns. Light (13½-ton) tanks will no longer predominate...
...Works and U.S. Army Ordnance, it weighs 57 tons, is heavily armored with welded and cast plate. Its contours are rounded to deflect hits, and even its traction gear is protected by steel. Its turrets are power driven, its silhouette cut down. It totes a three-inch double-purpose anti-tank & aircraft gun, powerful enough to stop any tank in existence, is equipped with a secret device, which gives its gunners 500% more accuracy than can be had in any other tank today. Powered by a 1,000-h.p. Wright Cyclone-type airplane motor, the new tank is as speedy...
...Some tanks throw or break their tracks, and lie still like wounded animals. New weapons appear-ugly little German 20-mm. ultra high-velocity anti-tank guns, motorized 75s, an occasional Hurricane blazing away with four cannon, Stukas in their grim game of selective diving...
...anti-tank weapon is not a makeshift (like the captured tanks from which the Germans shear armor and top-hamper for greater speed, or the improvised tactical organizations used in the Carolina maneuvers-see col. 1) but a machine specially built to destroy tanks. It is long (30 feet), low-lying (7 feet), armored, mounted on wheels, not caterpillars...