Word: anti-tank
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Then the tankers got the surprise of their lives. Stubbornly retiring, Oscar Griswold flung armored spearheads at the Blue flanks. Thanks to the Blues' reconnaissance and military intelligence, the baffled tankers plunged again & again into murderous anti-tank defenses...
...eating tankers this readiness was a stunning surprise, for the Blues were made up largely of ponderous, part-motorized square divisions and should have been slow on their feet. Hugh Drum had drummed up extra speed. While the rest of the Army, still without self-propelled artillery, had organized anti-tank groups, he had decided that attack was the best policy. He had drawn trucks and guns from his divisions, organized them into three independent Tank Attack Groups with plenty of mobility and terrific fire power. They went hunting for tanks, and found plenty...
...There is only one means, Stalin said, to reduce to zero the present German superiority in tanks and thus radically improve the position of our armies. This method consists not only in increasing several times the output of tanks in our country but also in sharply increasing the output of anti-tank guns, anti-tank aircraft, anti-tank rifles, anti-tank grenades and trench mortars...
...Fourth is buttressed by 79 tanks. Its reconnaissance troop is expanded to a battalion (with 14 tanks). It has an anti-tank battalion, will soon get an anti-aircraft battalion, and a third regiment of infantry. Its weapon strength has been multiplied beyond the fondest dreams of any gun crank. It has 3,997 machine guns (including 1,460 Tommy-guns). It has 284 cannon, ranging from blunt-snouted 155s and 105s for the artillery to slim 75s for anti-tank work. And it rides in an assortment of 2,900-odd vehicles...
...m.p.h. Designed to replace motorcycles and sidecars for reconnaissance work, it can go anywhere a cycle can, and a lot of places a cycle can't. It can be used as a troop carrier (three men easily, six with crowding), weapon carrier (machine guns, 37-mm. anti-tank guns, mortars), communications truck (to mount radios and carry wire). It has been successfully carried in transport planes and it is planned to try dropping it from a plane with a giant parachute...