Word: anti-tank
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...Germans choose to attack in the flat reaches of northern Yugoslavia the Yugoslavs will have a hard time. This would be a Blitz campaign through Blitz country, and to resist it the Yugoslavs would need modern weapons of the best, tanks, anti-tank guns and a crack Air Force. That they have aggressive Air Force personnel was indicated by the fact that last week's coup was engineered by the Air Force. Not only did Air Force Chief General Dusan Simovitch take over the Government: his blue-uniformed fliers personally commanded the tanks which supported his revolt...
...found a taxicab and ordered the driver to go to the Hotel Majestic. Five times on the way the driver had to detour around tanks, anti-aircraft and anti-tank units. The driver kept muttering: "Against the people! Against the people!" He thought the tanks and the guns and the soldiers were there to suppress demonstrations against the Axis. Correspondent Brock thought...
...touch on the starter, the motor roared, then settled into a gentle rumble. The odor of warm oil, warm metal filled the crowded tank; then the steady, rhythmic, lulling scrunch of the gears. Behind the motorized infantry, the motorcyclists, the trim anti-tank guns, the 68th moved into line, went past The Old Man at 20 m.p.h. Sergeant Pullen drove like a virtuoso, keeping his tank dressed with the four others on his left, watching the field for holes or stumps which would give him and his men a bashing blow against the steel walls...
...whole film was an incomparably bad cinematic post card to the wide world. Anti-tank guns fired in batteries-perhaps for the camera. Howitzers fired in flat trajectory-perhaps for the same reason. Young men signed up for the Communist Party just before going into battle -without enthusiasm, obviously for the camera. The only naval units shown were old Tsarist models of creaky vintage. Such airplanes as appeared seemed to be copied from obsolete U. S. models. The Red Army was unconsciously shown to be a stumblebug which has plenty of weapons but will take years to learn...
...military eye is struck by the film's omissions as much as by its revealing details. Left out are the much-touted flame-throwing tanks and the anti-tank rifle, bigger than an elephant gun. which the Germans copied from the Poles and with which every infantry platoon is now supposed to be equipped. Most impressive is the constant presence of artillery far up in the front lines. Wherever there are tanks, there too is artillery, to batter enemy tanks. Engineers are everywhere, too, building pontoon bridges, clearing debris, mining obstacles. The slow, energy-saving step of the infantry...