Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their target because its capture would seal off Mindanao and the other southern and central Philippine Islands, furnish bases for U.S. planes to cut Japan's supply lines to the East Indies storehouses. Then they had picked for the main assault the spot on Leyte where their armor and fire power could be used most advantageously: the upper half of the eastern shore line which leads down into the fertile Leyte Valley...
Head-On for Königsberg. Last week there was little news of the attacks from the north and the south. But by Berlin's own admission Chernyakhovsky's armor, smashing head-on toward Insterburg and Königsberg. the capital, was making progress. With what Berlin called fighting "at white heat" the attack from the east swept over the border town of Eydtkau...
...Guns. From the sore spot at Arnhem-the most dangerous point for break out into the north German plain-the enemy pulled out more tanks and men, hurled them against Hodges' lines in a new assault. The Americans had seen the reserves and the armor piling up, were braced for the onslaught. When it came this week, the battle became one of the fiercest yet fought in the west...
...first German tanks overran U.S. forward positions. Then a thunderous cannonade from more than 100 big guns massed in the assault area broke the attack, forced the German armor to back...
Under Fire. Byron Nelson is 4-F (hemophilia); his 165 lbs. look almost gaunt on his 6-ft. frame; his stomach is nervous and jumpy. There are chinks in his temperamental armor...