Word: anti-tank
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...Ormandy announced that, for the opening of the orchestra's summer season at Robin Hood Dell in Fairmount Park, the Pennsylvania National Guard had agreed to supply three 37-mm. anti-tank guns. The local musicians' union demanded that, since cannon are included in Tschaikowsky's score, a union man be hired to shoot them. Very well, replied the Dell management. But the orchestra wished to select a performer "who can play the cannon with due regard to its musical value." So there would be an audition for percussion men who wanted the job of "Symphony Bombardier...
Bombardier Lamasch's work was as good as done. He will earn $22 for one rehearsal, and one performance of the 1812 Overture. His job: standing by while an eight-man gun crew fires a 14-round salvo on the anti-tank guns...
...machine guns, howitzers, six armored cars and a motorcycle company. In addition to these highly diversified arms, the brigade includes a motorcycle battalion of 28 officers and 947 men with light and heavy machine guns and a field artillery regiment of 24 105-mm. howitzers. The brigade's anti-tank battalion has 36 37-mm. guns...
Above, on the far right, dive bombers working with the Panzer command have blasted an airport and are landing parachutists to demoralize the enemy rear. Center, the enemy bunkers and pillboxes, strafed from the air, are being attacked by ground troops with anti-tank guns and flamethrowers. Engineers are repairing blasted bridges and building new pontoon bridges to carry tanks across the river. Lower left, tanks of various types wait in hiding while on the hill above a radio car coordinates the battle and the supply train waits to move...
...break-through tanks, each carrying eight to 16 men, charged in, regardless of losses two to a squadron, two squadrons to a battery, three batteries to a section, three sections to a 36 tank regiment, plus a reserve echelon. Where deep rivers or canals interposed, the bombing planes covered the break-through tanks while, according to other stories, water tight 30-ton amphibians wallowed in, to let bridges be built across their steel backs for the rest. Other tanks apparently carried pontoons for crossing water. Across tank asparagus, pits, ravines, special bridging tanks laid trusses. Pioneer troops slipped ahead with...