Word: anti-tank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even official Berlin broadcasts admitted the Italians had suffered heavy losses, Rome was mum with mortification, and Madrid broadcasters had the Italians fleeing headlong as at Caporetto, in utter rout, abandoning field guns, anti-tank guns, ammunition, food and even that soldiers' treasure-cigarets-as Soviet bombing and pursuit planes harried them from the skies' and Red Militiamen charged after them through deep mud and slush...
Naked and sweating, Dedjazmatch Nassibu's men were digging like terriers in the foothills near Jijiga, preparing for a pitched battle to protect the country's only railway. Sinking huge anti-tank pits, their bottoms filled with spiked stakes, many big enough to hold an entire platoon, the Ethiopians sang a new song as they worked: "Shanko ingiillar leba! The white men are the thieves of the ages...
Thorough tests of a new British anti-tank gun, said to be capable of destroying any tank at 800 yards, led to a furious controversy among experts, last week, during which the statement was bandied that "the tank is now as obsolete as the old cast iron battleship...
...Anti-tank guns are also forbidden to the German Army. This does not stop it from foreseeing their use and from preparing crews to man them...