Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million Reichsmark credit agreement with the Nazis, ostensibly liquidating his debt to Hitler for services rendered during the Spanish Civil War, actually enabling Germany to secure fresh supplies of strategic materials. Probable first German purchase: 800 tons of precious wolfram now stored on the French border and needed for armor-piercing steel. Probable second purchase: more wolfram, stored in Spain...
...Armored Mice. Lewis started writing when he was very young. "My first stories," he says, "were nearly all about mice, but mice in armor killing gigantic cats. That is, I wrote the books I should have liked to read if only I could have got them...
Sick with "armor fever," Manstein and his teammates brought up huge 60-ton "Tiger" tanks (Mark VI) and 70-ton "Ferdinand" self-propelled guns. Smaller tanks were given an extra skin of armor. In all, 17 tank and 18 infantry divisions were massed for the summer drive, Russians said this was history's highest ratio of tanks to infantry...
...came from training camps, turning out millions of men & women soldiers. It also came from the new or transplanted war factories. Russian engineers performed miracles in expanding production, modernizing old weapons, creating new ones. Russia's Katusha antedated the U.S. bazooka, the German rocket gun. New, high-velocity, armor-piercing shells enabled the Red Army to retain anti-tank guns once thought too light to tackle the German Tiger...
...months the Army and Curator Stephen Grancsay of the Museum's ancient arms and armor department have been experimenting on armor that will give maximum protection from flak and flying missiles, minimum interference with movement. Last week genial, 46-year-old Curator Grancsay thought he had found the answer. He hoped to prove to the Army that the type of steel coat worn by medieval knights is still the best...