Word: anti-tank
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...behind motorized infantrymen, who made long marches by truck. New mortars arched shells into supposed enemy lines with an accuracy never approached in 1918. "Silhouette" machine-gun units went into battle firing from low-slung trucks. Some of the army's 283 light tanks tried out against new anti-tank guns which can supposedly stop any tank within range...
Over 400 planes joined in mass aerobatics, and next it was time for II Duce to set anti-tank guns popping with incendiary bullets which set fire to their targets. The latest Italian artillery then went into action, followed at Rome that evening by a gala Royal Opera performance of musical Adolf's favorite Lohengrin. Next morning Premier Mussolini drove unobtrusively to the railway station, popped in by a side door, while His Majesty the King-Emperor arrived in his victoria with departing Guest Hitler. Il Duce. after seeing the Führer into his private train, dashed ahead...
Shocked was France to learn that search by State operatives of 450 homes and shops in all parts of the country had netted by this week: 120,000 rifle and pistol cartridges; 500 machine guns; 65 submachine guns; several anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns; 17 sawed-off shotguns and 134 rifles, together with two tons of high explosives. Antique dealers, garage proprietors, members of the nobility and bargemen were among those arrested...
...Belden noted that "100 Victories" Wei seemed to have some heavy artillery and plenty of small, anti-tank guns. Previous lack of these accounted for many Chinese defeats in the North, for Japanese light tanks have advanced almost with impunity...
Bilbao. With few reserves and only a handful of modern planes to oppose the air squadrons of Italy arid Germany, Bilbao's Basques fought grimly on last week, but fought a losing battle. City defenders were cheered mightily when two companies of Basques with a single anti-tank gun and a barrier of three logs was able to put to flight a group of 18 Italian tanks, but in general the tide was against them. Basque lines were forced back to the third ring of steel and concrete trenches defending Bilbao. A key to the city was pine-covered...