Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow fell. Now Eisenhower was preparing to attack again, in the same valley. He had completely regained the initiative. The place was right, the time was ripe- and, according to the nervous Ger mans, Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army was accumulating potent masses of armor. Lack of armor in heavy concentration was one of the reasons why the November offensive on the Cologne plain had failed. The Ninth may soon write a different chapter in the his tory of World...
...field commanders, said General Campbell, do not want heavy, slow-moving sluggers. He had offered to supply the Army with a 62-ton tank. But the mobility-minded High Command declined them, still did not want them in Europe. U.S. generals, he said, prefer lighter, nimbler armor...
...entire eastern front, ablaze in various degrees from beleaguered Königsberg to southernmost Silesia, no single battle was more important than this. On its outcome might hang the immediate fate of Berlin-perhaps ultimately of Germany itself. Minefields, German armor, and heavy snows so thick that correspondents said they felt, rather than saw, the movement of endless hordes of Russian men and armor, could check but could not permanently halt the hate-filled Russian juggernaut (apparently neither could an unseasonable thaw). The Germans, too, felt the Russian fury as tons of shells bored holes in the grey, low-hanging...
Perhaps the figures were optimistic, on both sides-but the Germans were already showing the effect of serious losses. Although they kept up their bizarre token offensive in Alsace, they were pulling men and armor out of the Rhineland into central Germany, evidently hoping to hold the Westwall with Volksgrenadiere. The British profited by this withdrawal to move up to the Roer River, while Allied air attacks on the enemy's eastward movement gave direct tactical help to Russia...
...that was not war: it was only preparation for war, as Krueger's Third Army stood off the armored thrusts of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second in the Louisiana swamp country (September 1941). How good a preparation it had been was apparent last week. Again, Krueger was fighting in marshes and forests. But now on Luzon, main island of the Philippines, the initiative was his. The weight of armor was his. Superiority in manpower (at least locally) was his. Superiority in firepower was emphatically his. In the air and on the surrounding sea the enemy was utterly...