Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the new tank wastes no space, carries a lot of its weight in armor, it looks almost as small as a medium. Only 75s and 105s, loaded with armor-piercing -shells, would be effective against it. Although many a layman was skeptical of the new machine, figuring that few bridges would bear its weight, Army men knew that it could be utilized with devastating effect in open country. In action against other tanks, it is expected to have the power of battleship, the maneuverability of a destroyer...
Both observers and newsmen reported that the nimble lights could wheel and pirouette faster than the German tanks; that the thin side armor of German mediums was poor protection against the 37-mm. cannon of the U.S.-made tanks...
There were still other unanswered questions: Was U.S. riveted armor as good as the riveted armor of the Germans? Whether it was or not, better was on the way. Last week American Locomotive Co. ran off its first medium with a cast-steel upper hull. All its surfaces are curved (to make shots glance off). It is also lighter, faster to build...
...anti-tank weapon is not a makeshift (like the captured tanks from which the Germans shear armor and top-hamper for greater speed, or the improvised tactical organizations used in the Carolina maneuvers-see col. 1) but a machine specially built to destroy tanks. It is long (30 feet), low-lying (7 feet), armored, mounted on wheels, not caterpillars...
...many hours later the men of the Ark learned that the big girl, top-heavy with her thick deck armor, had rolled over on her back, lifted herself a bit by the stern, like some great animal making a last stab at survival, then plunged. The men were heartbroken, not over the fact, inconsequential to most of them, that Britain's third carrier loss* left the Royal Navy only nine of these invaluable craft, but simply because their invulnerable, incomparable Ark was gone...