Word: anti-tank
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...work. But hauling troops by air is no new story to the Army, which has moved outfits before, bag & baggage, just to save time. Until the Army gets more transports, it will have to content itself with moving small outfits, learning how to stow bulky items like 37-mm. anti-tank guns (weight: 950 Ib.) in the planes...
...casualty was announced: an R. A. F. gunner, wounded in the head by what was described as a "stray bullet" from an Italian plane. British naval vessels arrived in Athens from Alexandria, carrying a few troops. Very useful in surprising and checking the Italians was a set of light anti-tank guns flown in apparently from Palestine. The British were happy to give all this, since it fitted like a helping hand into the glove of British grand strategy...
...divisions will each have their own reconnaissance corps, anti-tank gun corps, and the like. The actual four projected mechanized divisions will be smaller, trained separately, requiring carefully selected men to fill out their increment...
Then silence fell, as down the twisted, historic streets came 1940, its look and sound. Rumbling, clanking, chugging, or moving deadly silent on huge rubber tires, rolled a mechanized cavalcade of the U. S. Regulars and the erstwhile National Guard: 100 heavy anti-aircraft guns, fresh from the plant; anti-tank guns; mounted searchlights, range-finding batteries, 4-inch sky-rifles neatly folded in their olive-green carriages; 50mm. machine guns...
...there were no modern anti-tank guns. Soldiers made them from drain pipes, old wheels, set them up on fields and roads and solemnly served them while umpires stretched their imaginations. There were few .50-calibre anti-aircraft guns. The shortage was made up by lettering ".50-calibre" on a pie plate, pasting it on the side of a Springfield rifle. Except for the regular outfits, no regiments had more than a token equipment of the Army's new Garand semi-automatic rifle. Except for the regulars, no outfit was completely motor-equipped. Hundreds of trucks and sedans were...