Word: anti-tank
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...twelve dead, about 200 injured. Engines aground and aloft belched more noise and fumes than did the guns (which fired blanks). There were agile, armored scout cars (with four guns, two-way radio). Excellent medium and light tanks (but no such heavy tanks as the Germans' mighty 80-tonners) rumbled up against 3 7 mm. anti-tank guns (which can pierce 2-inch armor at 1,500 yards) and smokepots (devised to blind tank crews in grey, saccharine fog). Some of the tanks had names. Defense forces using smokepots and modernized French 75-mm. field guns captured Gypsy Rose...
...light and medium tanks (until last week the Army wanted only 136 more for its wartime force. The Germans use 300-400 tanks in a single division). ∧ 744 anti-tank guns (total wanted...
...Yorkshire Light Infantry and a battalion of Territorials, about 1,500 men in all, sent ahead to relieve the beleaguered Norse garrison down in Hegra fortress. The Nazi naval guns and bombing planes were specially deadly because the Allied advance force had no artillery, no anti-aircraft batteries, no air support, no anti-tank guns. They did not even have white capes for snow-fighting. They were shocked, and shot up, when they met the Germans only three miles below Steinkjer, at Vist. For most of the British boys it was their first fighting, after only one year of training...
...security Sweden last week looked to her own arms. Her Army of 885,000 men is well trained and one of the best equipped in the world. From the famed Bofors munitions works come the world's best anti-aircraft guns (to make up in part for Sweden's slim, 500-plane Air Force), machine guns, anti-tank guns, rifles, armored cars, tin hats. The Swedish Navy has three 7,000-ton vestpocket battleships carrying 11-inch Bofors guns, one combined cruiser and aircraft carrier, seven smaller coast-defense vessels, 16 destroyers, 16 submarines. Based...
...Polish roads are crammed with the piled carts of fleeing peasants. They pass Polish cavalry going against German motorized forces, horses dragging anti-tank guns. Across the fields refugees run desperately carrying whatever they can. Desperately they pile on trains. Sometimes German planes machine-gun the trains. There are gruesome shots of a young Polish woman clutching the train seat in her death spasm, a father shot through chest and abdomen sitting helplessly between his hopeless wife and frightened, bewildered little girl...