Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...searing breath of battle had not touched them, luxuriant apple blossoms bloomed along the side streets. Where shells had not amputated the trunks of century-old lindens, there were soft, green leaves, and they fluttered down and stuck like bright greeting cards on the Russian tanks' hot grey armor. In the gardens multi-hued tulips swayed to the gun blasts, and lilacs offered a faint fragrance through the acrid fumes...
...back to Küstrin and Schwedt, thousands of dead German soldiers, more thousands of prisoners, hills of wreckage. In five days they had fought through five defense belts, smashing down a great concentration of enemy tanks in what may have been the war's biggest battle of armor. Now they could pierce the heart of the Hitlerites' realm-the scarred, sprawling fourth city of the world, the Nazis' holy ground. Russian shells screamed over and around Hitler's Kanzlei on Wilhelmstrasse and exploded close to Hermann Göringstrasse and into Potsdamer Platz. There...
...over Bradley's front, supply lines were strained to the snapping point. Endless truck columns labored to keep the infantry going, and the forward armor was supplied largely by air. One day C-47 transports hauled up 3,000 tons of supplies, taking wounded and liberated prisoners back on the return trip...
This week the Allies gave the Germans a sample of what will happen eventually to all pockets. French armor, backed by U.S. artillery and aircraft, began the flattening of German-held positions on both sides of the Gironde estuary, which had blocked the use of Bordeaux as a port. In three days the Allies captured Royan, main strongpoint on the north side of the Gironde. The hopeless Germans continued to battle bitterly...
...much of the city had been quickly turned into a Nazi rout. The street battles of seven days & nights were the last phases of a strategic victory that had been won in four weeks of battles along the roads from Budapest. In those battles the Germans had desperately spent armor and manpower. The Red Army had chopped apart eleven armored divisions...