Word: anti-tank
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April 9. In the nick of time Australian Major General Iven Gifford Mackay rushed an artillery and an anti-tank regiment and five Australian battalions-altogether less than one division-into the breach. The Germans appeared in vastly superior force, and although the defenders inflicted heavy casualties for two bloody days, it was obvious that the weight was too much to bear indefinitely...
...killing them. It was mass slaughter." Parachutists in grey shorts and heavy grey jackets, armed with submachine guns, floated to the aid of the men in the river. "Our position appeared to be in danger until my captain drew a bead on the leader in short pants with an anti-tank machine gun. The German was a six-footer. The blast got him squarely in the chest. He disintegrated from the waist up. His followers, seeing what had happened to him, hurled their grenades and withdrew...
...cars turned off. Soon they overtook a lorry convoy, which had halted to remove some anti-tank blocks. The staff cars made their way to the convoy head to investigate...
...Picking new hospital and anti-tank sites (and using them) cost an estimated $1,000,000 more than would have been needed for World War I sites...
...Putsch. At 1 o'clock that morning grey-green tanks had begun lumbering through the streets of Belgrade, going slowly so as to make as little noise as possible. Behind them were the anti-tank and anti-aircraft units and machine-gun crews. Along the roads leading from the city and at every strategic spot in Belgrade the tanks and guns took their positions. It was all done quickly and quietly, and Belgrade slept...