Word: anti-tank
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...supplies would be drawn, in approximately equal parts, from three sources. Such items as trucks, anti-tank guns and radar equipment would have to be built (and paid for at current costs). Jeeps, rifles, ammunition, some types of artillery, and destroyer escorts (the largest ships to be sent to Europe under MAP), would come from the armed forces reserves, established after the war. They would be charged against the program at replacement cost. Other items would come from excess stocks...
...father. When the Germans came, Abraham fled to Russia. The Germans caught up with him again at Stalino, where he had found a job pushing coal cars in the mines. With 500 others, Abraham was marched away to a field outside town, ordered to stand in front of an anti-tank ditch and stripped of his clothes. He fainted, and fell too soon to hear the staccato of the German machine guns. When he awoke it was dark and rainy, the ditch was filled with bodies. Abraham lay still. Later he crawled on hands and knees and found four other...
...change at the frontier was electric. Just at the border was a big Finnish lumberyard which would have done credit to Seattle. A birch-burning engine shunted briskly up & down the sidings. A row of roughly shaped granite rocks-crude anti-tank barriers left over from the war-dotted a hill; behind a brown horse, a sturdy, towheaded Finn who had already plowed several acres on either side was now plowing between the boulders. His neat house with its red tile roof and his brand-new red barn stood proudly at the top of the hill...
Aboard the train, the corporal and his three buddies "commandeered" a first-class compartment, and added a pregnant mother and her children ("someone suitableand deserving") to the group. One of the soldiers questioned the pregnant woman, whose husband worked in an anti-tank gun factory. "[Your husband] didn't come out on strike, did he?" asked the soldier. "Yes, he did-twice." "Why?" asked the soldier. "They wasn't paying enough, and it was terrible long hours." "We could have done with those guns," snapped the soldier. . . . Suddenly he blushed and became apologetic: "Sorry, miss...
...took a bedsheet from a house, broke into a pharmacy, found mercurochrome and blue ink, made a crude representation of a U.S. flag and waved it from the tower of an ancient castle. The Russians, who had been tricked by Germans waving U.S. flags, sent over a few anti-tank shells...