Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing (said Baldwin), the Ardennes battles demonstrated the superiority of the German tanks. The new Hunting Panther and Royal Tiger tanks "are better all-around tanks than anything the Allies now have in the field. . . . With their new 88-mm. guns, very heavy frontal armor and wide tracks, they have more armor, more hitting power and are better mud-goers...
Surprise for Americans. U.S. tanks armed with 75-mm. guns are too light to stop German armor, said Baldwin, "unless they get in close-range lucky side shots. Even the bazooka no longer holds its former terror for some of the German monsters." Heavier 76-mm. and 105-mm. guns are effective "but only at relatively close range." The German 88-mm. "is as good as or better" than the U.S. 90-mm. high-velocity piece (now mounted in the U.S. M36 tank destroyer...
Field Marshal Montgomery had deployed the British Second Army on the First Army's right flank. It was disclosed that British armor had participated in the battle of Celles which decapitated the Nazi bulge short of the Meuse (TIME, Jan. 8). On the salient's western edge, the British 6th Airborne was now locked in seesaw battle...
...basalt dike at Westkapelle had been started 500 years ago. The Germans had built pillboxes on it. Allied bombers had breached it. Commandos had poured through its gaps, in the wake of the rushing sea. Here & there, like beached sea monsters, still sprawled the rusting hulks of dead British armor...
...went in 50 feet off the water without fighter cover," he remembers. "The Japs were firing into the water ahead of us and firing antiaircraft bursts to direct their fighters to us. A Zero riddled my radio and my armor plate and my radioman's armor plate, then shot up one of my gas tanks. I didn't think we had a chance so I went on in and got up close to the Jap carrier before I let the torpedo go. I think I got a hit. Mostly I was saying, 'Mom, I'm afraid...