Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weighs 45 tons, mounts a 90-mm. gun. The Royal Tiger is some 30 tons heavier (which means thicker armor), and mounts the vicious, high-velocity...
Speed Record. Fifty-eight hours and more than 50 miles later they were there, close to Coblenz. They had slashed out a corridor north of the Moselle with one of the war's swiftest armor strokes. Behind their tanks the infantry mopped up thousands of prisoners from shredded German divisions. Among them was a befuddled German general. Out of touch with his troops, he had stood on a knoll looking for some sign of them. Finally his binoculars found a large batch of Germans. He hurried over to find that they-and he-were prisoners...
...minor epic" of the war. It concerned the building of a bridge. A small column of 8th Division infantry had a fingerhold across the Erft Canal. Ahead of them, the Germans were gathering tanks for a counterattack. Behind them, U.S. combat engineers were building the bridge, to bring up armor to support the infantry...
Surrender to Air. The next day interdiction became close tactical support. Fighters swooped on German armor trying to stop the Allied drive. Pilots, discovering that enemy tanks were vulnerable in the rear, dived on them and shot them up with machine-gun bullets through air vents and exhaust pipes...
Feeble Defense. On the third day, Düren (peacetime pop. 37,000) was in Yank hands. It was the second largest German town to fall in the west. * By then, vehicular bridges spanned the Roer, and supplies, guns, armor and troop reinforcements were flowing steadily across. The Ninth captured Steinstrass, 18 miles from Cologne, which had been a refitting center for German armor. The 84th and 102nd Infantry Divisions captured some enemy 88s with ammunition intact. In a night attack on Merzenich, the First Army took prisoners in their sleeping clothes...