Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Army's armor was within 140 miles of the capital, speeding toward the Elbe. As they had cut off the Ruhr, Lieut. Generals Simpson and Hodges were now in position to form another trap, with Berlin as its center. Lieut. General Patton's tankmen were apparently going to face a cohesive enemy on the roads to Leipzig...
...this week Patton's forward drive had been somewhat slowed, either by increased resistance (Germans were reported streaming westward to meet his thrusts) or by the demands of supplying his tanks. Patton's armor had sunk the deepest wedge into Germany; his spearheads were only 175 miles from the Russians and the Germans were jumpy over any Patton move. One might be the payoff stroke that would cut Germany in two at the waist...
Powerful forces are ranged along the border. At peak strength the Russians probably had 800,000 trained troops, with modern armor and planes, in Siberia. The Japs' crack Kwantung army, which holds its mandate direct from the Emperor and runs Manchuria like a private estate, may have 1,000,000 men. The Red Army took many of its best Siberian divisions west to fight the Germans in the last three years; they may or may not have been replaced. On the other hand, six Jap divisions from Manchuria were chopped up in the Philippines...
...under heavy air attack without air cover. The fleet fought back hard, zigzagged crazily, poured purple, red, yellow and green antiaircraft puffs into the skies. The Yamato's 16-inch guns roared. But the attack was relentless. The battleship, smashed by eight torpedoes and eight 1,000-lb. armor-piercing bombs, went down in a roaring explosion. The two cruisers and three of the destroyers were sunk, the six remaining destroyers heavily damaged...
...Past. Cavalryman Patton gallops along in a tradition of military men Americans have always cheered-Phil Sheridan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Elwell Brown Stuart, the men who used their cavalry as Patton uses his armor, like a saber. Patton is a modern version of Jeb Stuart's scout and raider: Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby...