Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next summer when light plane manufacturers lent a dozen puddle jumpers for the 1941 maneuvers. A new colonel named Dwight Eisenhower was impressed. So was Lieut. Colonel Mark Clark. Flying observation posts soon were standard in the field artillery, ten to each infantry division, eight to each of armor...
...belly of the ship. The plane now creeping into R.A.F.-Eighth Air Force communiques is the fourth model. It looks something like a huge,* streamlined milk bottle. It is half as heavy as a loaded 21-passenger transport, is armed with eight .50-calibre machine guns, is heavily armor-plated, is powered with a 2,000-h.p. Ford-built Pratt & Whitney engine...
...Russian forces "along the arc of the Kursk salient" constitute a goodly portion of the Red Army's best troops and armor. Kursk itself is a valuable railway and military center. But, as the Russians indicated, Nazi Field Marshal Günther von Kluge may well be more interested in the "encirclement and annihilation" of those forces than in geographical gains...
This week 106,000 men were learning how tough the D.T.C. at its toughest can be. Two infantry divisions, one of armor, an air-support command of 3,000 men and 23,000 service troops were winding up the most grueling maneuvers ever held in the U.S. Said an exhausted tankman: "We were in Louisiana before we were here. I thought that was rugged, but it was a picnic...
...Large forces of German armor and aircraft, hitherto sure signs that the Wehrmacht means business, had gone into action. The Russians said they destroyed or damaged 586 German tanks and 203 German planes the first...