Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best Jap plane we've run into is the improved Zero, which we call the Hap. It has some armor protection for the pilot and a little more power than the Zero without sacrificing much maneuverability. But it blows up like a Zero when...
...point the road was clogged with one solid chain of British armor," Lang reports. "The tanks were halted because some bitter fighting was still going on near the intersection ahead, and we could ear the chilling chatter of machine guns, cautioning us that Tunis was not yet won. We bypassed the tanks and bumped onward over the roadside trolley line, passing villas licking flames into...
Meanwhile the 1st Armored Division had taken Maknassy, north of Gafsa, but was unable to push through the hills beyond. Reason: insufficient infantry. So about half the division was shifted to El Guettar for the new offensive. A dozen miles east of El Guettar the hills come close together in a narrow pass, and after that there is flat going to the sea. The plan was for the 1st Division to seize the hills to the north, for the 9th to take Djebel Berda and the other hills to the south, then for the ist Armored to push through...
Correspondents who saw the British 6th Armored Division break through at Fondouk two weeks later felt that the U.S. armor might have shown more daring at El Guettar. True, the hills to the south of the pass had not been cleared, but a determined thrust might have forced the pass and flanked the enemy in those hills. True, there were minefields in the pass, but so there were at Fondouk, and there the British sacrificed some 40 tanks to plough through. But whatever shortcomings were revealed at El Guettar, they taught some valuable lessons. If U.S. troops learn best...
...same as it had been in the south: to clear the mountains guarding a pass, force the pass and spread out on the plain to Kairouan. Those who watched a brigade of Guards take the dominant hill north of Fondouk in half an hour, who later saw the British armor plunge through a 450-yard-deep minefield covered by twelve anti-tank guns and speed for Kairouan, felt that there was something essentially wrong with the 34th, which had been unable to take the hills on the south side of the pass. The four U.S. correspondents who saw that battle...