Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alengon, Paris. To the north the Germans still held hard to their Norman anchor below Caen. But they saw the threat. To consolidate against a possible swift U.S. flanking envelopment, the Germans quickly made an orderly withdrawal behind the Orne River. Below Caen the weight of British and Canadian armor was still poised for a breakout. Its obvious first use would be to punch the Germans back against the Seine...
Perhaps the German High Command had decided that Brittany would have to go. Brittany was not heavily held, and the deadly Allied air superiority made reinforcement impossible. U.S. armor passed over & around the defense like a freshet foaming over rocks. Inside his once-vaunted "wall" the enemy was incredibly soft...
Preparation for Armor. The American offensive opened with one of the greatest aerial preparations in history. The bomb carpet was laid mostly on the Saint Lô-Périers road and beyond it in an area 2,000 yards wide and 9,000 yards in depth. Nearly everything in the bomber's book went into it-from 500-pounders carried by heavies to 23-lb. fragmentations scattered by mediums and fighters-a saturation of about ten bombs to an acre...
...miles. Then it stalled in front of a murderous screen of German 88-mm. guns, mortars, cleverly emplaced tanks firing like mobile pillboxes. The tanks could not plow into the wall of fire that faced them; they had to be drawn back without achieving a major clash with German armor. Correspondents applauded Monty's economy of casualties...
...Spanish Civil War was a laboratory for the Russians as it was for the Axis. The Russians watched the German Blitzkrieg rehearsal with military as well as political interest; at Guadalajara their own planes effectively chewed up the Italian armor in the world's first great demonstration of attack aviation. But their planes were behind the times. Soviet design and production were not up to Soviet theory. By the beginning of the Finnish war the Russian planes were still not up to snuff and the job had to be done mainly with that faithful old standby -masses of artillery...